The German Parliament with the majority of the governing coalition has called upon the government to put its weight within the European Union behind stringent labelling of GMO contamination of conventional and organic seeds at the detection level and to defend the purity of seeds. Germany thereby joins Italy, Denmark, Austria and Luxembourg in their opposition to EU Commission plans to establish contamination thresholds between 0,3 and 0,5 percent for GMOs in seeds. Most other EU governments have not taken a position yet.</p><p><a href="http://www.zs-l.de/saveourseeds/news/international/pe_26_05_04_en.pdf">Save our Seeds press release</a></p><p><a href="http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/15/029/1502972.pdf">German Bundestag resolution in German</a></p><p><a href="http://www.saveourseeds.org/downloads/com_draft_seeds_04_2004.pdf">Internal draft of the EU commission on contamination thresholds in seeds</a>