The bill (Reg. No. 11299) was developed to settle the issue of turnover and labeling of genetically modified food products (GMO).
The document includes a number of suggestions concerning labeling of such products.
Committee members emphasized that such an approach toward genetically modified food products labeling is used in the legislation of the European Union, the Russian Federation, the USA, Canada and other countries. Particularly, according to the demands of the Regulations (EC) No. 1829/2003/ and No. 1830/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 concerning the traceability and labeling of genetically modified organisms and the traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically modified organisms, any food containing more than 0.9% of a GM product should carry a label.
The Committee members noted that before 2010 Ukraine had analogous demands toward GM products labeling. However, after adoption of laws No. 1778-VI and No. 1779-VI the provision was implemented to mandatory labeling food products “with GMO” or “without GMO”. Committee members believe that implementation of provisions of the abovementioned laws proved ineffective.