New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 101

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✨ Genetically Modified Organisms Trial Conditions



  1. Tents shall be erected over the canola crops prior to any flowering;
  2. Tents shall be checked daily during flowering, to seed maturity and throughout harvesting, to ensure that their integrity is maintained;
  3. An isolation zone of 2 kilometres from any other brassica crop, shall be maintained, to guard against the possibility for outcrossing. The 2km isolation zone shall be monitored, with removal of any weedy brassicas. The isolation zone monitoring shall be maintained during the trial and for the subsequent 4 years, or one year beyond time when no new seedlings appear. The isolation zone should not include any part of the isolation zone of any other transgenic canola trial;
  4. Seed shall be hand harvested. Following harvesting, trash is to be burnt on site and the site irrigated to promote germination of remaining seed and seedlings controlled through a herbicide or other effective means of removal. Throughout the monitoring period the site shall not be cultivated in a manner that buries seed;
  5. Bee hives shall be placed within the tents during flowering. Hives shall not be removed until at least one day after no viable pollen is detected in the hives;
  6. All machinery used in the trial is to be thoroughly cleaned to remove any seed before it leaves the trial site;
  7. A final report shall be made to the IAG or its successor on the completion of the trial;
  8. The management and monitoring programme and the actions taken in accordance with it shall be recorded in a manner that allows verification by the IAG or an enforcement officer under the HSNO Act at any inspection;
  9. Written verification shall be provided that all seed originating from the trial has been exported at the completion of the trial;
  10. Clearly legible location and site plans shall be provided to the IAG;
  11. The IAG or its successor may inspect the trial sites at mutually agreed times.

Trial start date December 1996
Completion date July 1997
Post harvest monitoring 31 July 2001, or one year after no further canola seedlings appear
completion date on the trial site.

Trial Number 43
Project title Proposal to field test genetically modified canola
Approved 25 November 1996
Approved trial period November 1996- November 1997
Organism Common Canola (Oil seed rape)



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