Environmental Audit Committee

4 May 2004 GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials:

the Government Response

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

This report will be published on

Wednesday 5 May 2004 at 11am

The GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials: the Government Response report will be published as the Committee's Fifth Report, HC 564, at 11am on Wednesday 5 May 2004.

Copies of the Report will be sent to all those who gave written or oral evidence to the Committee's original inquiry. Organisations and representatives of the media may arrange, by telephoning 020 7219 6150 in advance, to collect copies of the Report from the Reception at 7 Millbank from 11am on Wednesday 5 May.

Please note that this report is being published in-House and will not be formally published by TSO until next week. It will, therefore, at first not appear in its normal format.

Once the Report has been formally published by TSO, copies can be obtained from TSO outlets and from the Parliamentary Bookshop, 12 Bridge Street, Parliament Square, London SW1A 2JX (020 7219 3890) by quoting House of Commons No. 564.

The text of the Report will be available next week on the Committee's Internet homepage:

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Notes for Editors

1. The Committee published its report into GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials on Friday 5th March 2004, as its Second Report of Session 2003-04. The report and substantive press release can be found on the Committee's Internet home page at:

www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/environmental_audit_committee.cfm

2. The Committee announced its inquiry into GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials in a press release on 18 September 2003. Details of all the Committee's press releases and inquiries, together with its Reports and other publications, are available on the Committee's Internet home page.

3. The Government response to the Committee's Second Report was received by the Committee on Wednesday 28 April and is appended to the Fifth Report.