GMOs decision at the 2nd meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention
The 2nd meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (i.e. the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters) took place on 25-27 May 2005 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. One of the decisions adopted concerned the role of the public in decisions involving GMOs. See a UNECE press release "Governments reach agreement on public participation in decision-making on genetically modified organisms" at
http://www.unece.org/press/pr2005/05env_p06e.htm or contact
[email protected] for more information. The UNECE is one of five regional commissions of the UN and has 55 Member countries from North America, Western, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. There are 35 Parties to the Aarhus Convention.
