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Crop trials<br />

• No formal mechanism for public participation<br />

• Public informed after sites are chosen + can make written comments<br />

only on safety assessments.<br />

• Local councils can organize public meetings with DEFRA rep, for<br />

information not consultation.<br />

• Public participation in unofficial forms, campaigns (2 trials ab<strong>and</strong>oned<br />

after public protests).<br />

• But Government does claim that there is ‘public involvement’. DEFRA<br />

website:

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