Greece

The majority of Greeks (both citizens and farmers) want neither GMO products on their plates nor the cultivation of GMOs on their land.  In 2004, all prefectures declared their area a GMO-free zone.  In 2014, 27,000 citizens signed the Greenpeace petition against the nationalisation of GMO cultivation in EU member states.  Greece upholds a restriction on the GMO against GM-maize MON810 under article 23 of Directive 2001/18/EC.

(Updated by Greenpeace Greece on 1 April 2015)

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In October 2004, the last of the 54 prefectures voted to declare their area GMO-free. That means that the whole of Greece is now covered by regional GMO-free zones. The anti-GMO movement is growing rapidly in the country. Last research results showed that the 93% of Greeks do not want GMO-cultivation on their land nor GMO products on their plate. Greece upholds a restriction on the GM swede rape Topas 19/2 under Article 16 of EU Directive 90/220 (known as the safeguard clause), and against GM maize MON810 under Article 23 of Directive 2001/18/EC.