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GM CROPS PUBLIC DEBATE

PUBLIC DEBATE STEERING BOARD

The Chair of the AEBC, Professor  Malcolm Grant as requested by Government has appointed an independent steering board to oversee a programme of debate on GM issues, focussing on the issue of the possible commercialisation of GM crops in the UK.

The steering board will be chaired by Professor Grant.  The members are as follows.

(1) AEBC members

Ms Anna Bradley
Dr Dave Carmichael
Professor Phil Dale
Professor Robin Grove-White
Ms Judith Hann
Professor Jeff Maxwell

(2) non-AEBC members

Mr Stephen Smith, chair of the UK industry agricultural biotechnology council;
Ms Clare Devereux, director of the Five Year FREEZE umbrella grouping of NGOs;
Mr Gary Kass, from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Members of the steering board will serve in their personal capacities rather than as representatives of particular organisations or constituencies. 

Lucian Hudson, Director of Communications at DEFRA, will also sit on the steering board, for reasons of proper accountability for expenditure of public funds. 

The inaugural meeting of the steering board will be on Friday 13 September, at 11am to 1pm at the Institute of Civil Engineers, 1 Great George Street, London SW1.  The meeting will be open to the public to observe.

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