The Ministry of Rural Development is organising a GMO Roadshow that will tour the country in November and December. Experts from the Ministry and its background institutions, as well as representatives from the scientific and civil community will be holding lectures and presentations in eight large cities throughout the country on the environmental, economical and social impact of genetically modified organisms and their effects on health. Communiqué.

The series of presentations will be launched in Gödöllő on November 15 by Gyula Budai, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development., at the Institute for Small Animal Research and Co-ordination Centre for Gene Conservation (KÁTKI). Venues for further presentations include the University of West Hungary in Mosonmagyaróvár, the University of Pécs, the University of Pannonia in Keszthely, the Eszterházy Károly College in Eger, Kecskemét College, and the Körös-Maros National Park in Szarvas.

Hungary regards the regulation of activities related to crops that have been modified using gene technology and the preservation of Hungary's GMO free status as high priority strategic objectives. This intent is also declared in the new Fundamental Law, which came into force on 1 January, 2012.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been changed at a molecular level in a way that does not exist in nature using the methods of gene technology.

(Press Office of the Ministry of Rural Development)