Participants

Albania

• Lavdosh Ferunaj – Albanian Organic Agriculture Association

Austria

• Markus Schörpf – BIO – Austria
• Alexandra Pohl – Bio Austria / ARGE Bio-Landbau
• Thomas Fertl – Consultant
• Gerald Lonauer – EU-Representative of Upper Austria
• Josef Hoppichler – Federal Institute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas
• Jens Karg – GLOBAL 2000
• Werner Müller – GLOBAL 2000
• Sepp Eisl – Minister of Agriculture, Salzburg
• Josef Martinz – Regional government of Carinthia
• Peter Hebein – Regional government of Carinthia

Azerbaijan

• Aytan Poladova – Environmental Sustainability NGO, Azerbaijan

Belgium

• Antje Kölling – European Parliament, Green Group
• Oliver Emmes – European Parliament, Green Group
• Michel Somville – European Parliament, Green Group
• Karen Janssens – Greenpeace Belgium
• Eric Gall – Greenpeace European Unit
• Roberto Piccinini – Greenpeace European Unit
• Marco Schlüter – IFOAM EU Group
• Hiltrud Breyer – Member of the European Parliament, Green Group

Bulgaria

• Svetla Nikolova – Agrolink, organic Assotiation
• Valentina Lukova – National Movement Ecoglasnost – FoE Bulgaria

Cyprus

• Kiriaki Zannettou – Federation of Environmental and Ecological Organizations

Czech Republic

• Martin Kloubek – Greenpeace Czech Republic

Denmark

• Dan Belusa – Greenpeace Nordic

Estonia

• Andres Õunmaa – Estonia Ministry of Agriculture
• Nastja Pertsjonok – Estonian Fund for Nature
• Silver Nittim – Estonian Fund for Nature
• Marika Ruberg – Ministry of Agriculture Estonia

Finland

• Hannes Tuohiniitty – People’s Biosafety Association in Finland

France

• Elise Breyton – Bureau of European Parliament in Paris
• Jordi Rossinyol – Friends of the Earth
• Eric Meunier – INF’OGM
• Bob Brac de Perriere – INF’OGM / BEDE
• Agnès Ciccarone – The Assembly of European Regions, Strasbourg ( AER)
• Pascale Loget – Vize President of the Conseil regional Bretagne

Georgia

• Mariam Jorjadze – Biological Farming Association “Elkana”
• Inga Gvineria – Georgian Association of Preventive Toxicologists

Germany

• Ann Stafford – Consultant
• Mute Schimpf – ABL, Association of of peasant farmers
• Siegrid Herbst – ABL, German family farmers association
• Cornelia Wiethaler – agravivendi, GMO free lake of constance
• Paola Aluarez – AIS- Agencia Informacion Solidaria
• Rüdiger Stegemann – Aktionsbündnis Gentechnik-freie Region Oberrhein
• Jochen Fritz – Aktonsbündnis GVO-freie Landwirtschaft Baden-Württemberg
• Dorothee Kersten – Amursoja Projekt
• Stefan Zwoll – Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft e.V. ABL
• Tobias Plieninger – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Thomas Dosch – Bioland, organic farmers association
• Peter Stoltenberg – Bioland, organic farmers association, North
• Birgit Eßlinger – Bioland, organic association, Baden-Württemberg
• Peter Röhrig – BÖLW, organic food production alliance
• Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein – BÖLW, organic food production alliance / Naturland
• Katja Vaupel – BUND, Friends of the Earth, Brandenburg
• Heike Moldenhauer – BUND, Friends of the Earth, federal office
• Hans-Theo Jachmann – CEO, Syngenta Germany
• Lutz Grohmann – CONGEN Biotechnology GmbH
• Bertram Verhaag – Denkmal Film Ltd.
• Christiane Grefe – Die Zeit
• Katja Moch – Eco-Institute
• Christine Weizsäcker – Ecoropa
• Gabriele Weiss – EcoStrat GmbH, Büro Berlin
• Ulrike Middelhoff – Ecosystem Research Centre, University of Kiel
• Rudolf Buntzel – EED, Development Service of German protestant churches
• Claudia Fiebig – Environment Ministry of North-Rhine Westfalia
• Andreas Krug – Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
• Barbara Niedeggen – Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
• Beatrix Tappeser – Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
• Christel Schmelzeisen – Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
• Frank Berhorn – Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Division Monitoring
• Dan Leskien – Federal Ministry for Consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture
• Mathias Berninger – Federal Ministry for Consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture
• Laurent Luettge – Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety
• Eckard Engert – Federal Ministry for Consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture
• Cornelia Roeckl – Foundation on Future Farming
• Benny Haerlin – Foundation on Future Farming / Save our Seeds
• Rutj Kleinöder – Freilicht Museum Domäne Dahlem
• Martha Mertens – Friends of the Earth Bavaria
• Adrian Bebb – Friends of the Earth Europe
• Hartmut Meyer – GENET
• Christof Potthof – Gen-ethisches Netzwerk
• Ulrike Doyle – German Advisory Council on the Environment
• Ingrid Nöh – German Federal Environment Agency
• Manuel Schneider – grassroots foundation / Projektbuero !make sense!
• Henning Strodthoff – Greenpeace
• Ulrike Bickel – Greenpeace Aachen
• Swati Jangle – Greenpeace e. V.
• Tina Loeffelbein – Greenpeace Germany
• Johannes Niedeggen – Gut Kerkow, Uckermarck
• Janna Völker – Informationsdienst Gentechnik
• Oliver Scherer – Informationszentrum Gentechnik Hohenlohe-Unterland
• Christoph Palme – Institut für Naturschutz und Naturschutzrecht, Tübingen
• Matthias Miersch – Lawyer
• Bernd Voss – Member of the EU Economic and Social Committee, AbL
• F-W. Graefe zu Baringdorf – Member of the European Parliament, President of AbL
• Hans-Georg Starck – Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture Schleswig-Holstein
• Kai Deutschmann – Nabu, Natural Protection Alliance, Brandenburg – Havel
• Steffi Ober – Nabu, Natural Protection Alliance, federal office
• Steffen Reese – Naturland
• Susanne Götze – Neues Deutschland
• Turgut Altug – Öko-Brücke Deutschland-Türkei e. V. / No To GMO´s Platform Turkey
• Melanie Amrhein – Regionen aktiv, Reutlingen
• Juergen Binder – Stop-Gmo.Org
• Andreas Bauer – Umweltinstitut München e.V.
• Annegret Falter – VDW, Union of German Scientists
• Sabine Brückmann – Women in Europe for a Common Future, WECF

Greece

• Nikolao Kontosoro
• Yoryakis Kostis – Bio.Zo – Bio Consumers for quality life
• Paula Maier – Dio, Greek organic farmers association
• Nikolaos Lappas – General Confederation of Greek Agrarian Associations
• Myrto Pispini – Greenpeace
• Helena Dimitriou – Panhellenic Network Against GMO
• Ioannis Stratakis – Prefect of Florina, Union of Prefectural Administrations of Greece
• Lazaros Georgiadis – Union of Prefectural Administrations of Greece (ENAE)
• Caterina Choreftaki – WECF-working group on sustainable agriculture and rural development

Hungary

• Lea Bauer – Biokontroll Hungaria KHT
• Balázs Kormos – Chamber of Agriculture Hajdú-Bihar
• Noemi Nemes – Greenpeace
• Veronika Mora – Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation
• Hajnalka Homoki – Ministry of Environment and Water Hungary
• Erika Andrási – Municipality of Karcag

India

• Suman Sahai – Gene Campaign

Ireland

• Danny Forde – GM free Wexford
• Aine Kealy – GM-free Ireland Network
• Michael O’Callaghan – GM-free Ireland Network
• Grainne Vaughan – Irish Seed Savers Association
• Martin Kenny – Leitrim County Councillor

Italy

• Claudio Melchiorre – Adoc, consumer association
• Talea Weissang – Associazione Marchigiana Agricoltura Biologica
• Riccardo Russu – Arsia Regione Toscana
• Albert Wurzer – Autonomous Province of Bozen
• Carmelo Troccoli – Confederazione nationale Coldiretti, EU office
• Luca Colombo – Consiglio dei Diritti Genetici, Genetic rights council
• Barbara Schiller – Consultant
• Fabrizia Pratesi – Equivita
• Federica Ferrario – Greenpeace
• Edoardo Zanchini – Legambiente Onlus
• Milena Dominici – Legambiente, Onlus
• Chiara Boni – Minister of Communication of Tuscany
• Alessandro Fugatti – Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige
• Francesca Ponti – Regione Emilia – Romagna
• Daniele Govi – Regione Emilia-Romagna
• Roberto Gatto – Regione Marche Italia
• Renzo Spagnesi – Regione Toscana, Economic division, sustainable product quality
• Massimo Bugli – RomaNatura
• Gianfilippo Lucatello – RomaNatura, Nature protection agency
• Maria Mammuccini – Tuscan Regional Agency for Development and Innovation in Agriculture
• Marcello Buiatti – Università degli Studi di Firenze
• Elmar Stimpfl – Versuchszentrum Laimburg
• Eduardo Calza Bini – WFP

Japan

• Haruo Nagasawa – Kyodo News Agency
• Keisuke Amagasa – No! GMO Campaign
• Akiko Frid – No! GMO Campaign
• Ryoko Shimizu – Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative

Lithuania

• Jurgita Maciunaite – Environmental Information Center

Netherlands

• Ronnie Tack – A Seed Europe
• Maaike Raaijmakers – Biologica, organic food and farming platform
• Pieter Jansen – Both Ends
• Janne Kuil – Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals
• Yvette Kleekamp – Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals
• Geert Ritsema – Friends of the Earth, Europe
• Diederick Sprangers – Goede Waar & Co consumers organisation
• Lindsay Keenan – Greenpeace International
• Antje Lorch – Ifrik
• Robert A. Verlinden – Platform Belangen van Consument (BeVaCo)
• Wytze de Lange – Xminy Solidarityfunds

Poland

• Jadwiga Lopata – ICPPC – International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside
• Julian Rose – ICPPC – International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside
• Pawel Polanecki – Region of Mazowie, Deputy Chairman of the Sejim
• Ela Priwieziencew – Social Ecological Institute

Portugal

• João Melo – Direcção Regional do Ambiente
• Margarida Silva – Quercus

Rep Macedonia

• Nenad Kocic – Vila Zora

Romania

• Gabi Paun – Ecosens
• Craioveanu Dan – Federation of Organic Farmers-Romania

Russia

• Victoria Kolesnikova – Eremurus Club/CIS Biosafty Alliance

Serbia and Montenegro

• Natasa Dereg – Green Network of Vojvodina

Spain

• Manuela González Griñán – Ciutadans pel Canvi
• María Ramos – COAG – Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores
• Helen Groome – EHNE, Basque Farmers’ Union
• Alexis Vaughan – GRAIN
• Rosa Binimelis – Plataforma Transgènics Fora, Catalonia
• Albert Ferre – Platforma Transgenics Fora

Sweden

• Peter Einarsson – Ekologiska Lantbrukarna, organic farmers associaton

Switzerland

• François Meienberg – Berne Declaration
• Florianne Koechlin – Blauen-Institut, SAG Schweiz. Arbeitsgruppe Gentechnik
• Angelika Hilbeck – Ecostrat, ETH Zurich
• Christian Schlatter – FiBL, Research Institute on organic farming
• Alex Hagmann – Film Video Multimedia
• Jean-Louis Gueydon – Fondation pour une Terre Humaine
• Florian Leiber – Freie Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft
• Bruno Heinzer – Greenpeace
• Bernhard Batschelet – Musician
• Urs Hans – Public Eye on Science
• Daniela Luethi – RSI Radio Svizzera Rete Uno
• Maya Graf – SAG and Member of the Swiss Parliament
• Daniel Ammann – SAG, Swiss working group on genetic engineering
• Markus Sieber – Stiftung Fintan Rheinau
• Jochen Koester – TraceConsult

Turkey

• Öykü Kaygusuz – Turkish GMO’s Platform

UK

• David Cuming – Consumers International (CI)
• Helena Paul – econexus and five year freeze
• Brian Johnson – English Nature
• Steve Emmott – European Parliament
• Kenneth Richter – Friends of the Earth England, Wales, Northern Ireland
• Becky Price – GeneWatch UK
• Matthew Burgess – Mid Devon District Council, UK / Green Party UK

USA

• Rachel Schurman – Univ of Minnesota