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Wednesday 18 November 2015

Keynotes

• Welfare and Coexistence
  David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, United States
• Labeling and Consumer Behavior
  Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University, United States

Plenary Session 1: Low Level Presence - Threshold Policies

• Low Level Presence Policy Developments in Canada
  Jim  Everson, Soy Canada, Canada
• Low Level Presence Policy Developments in Colombia
  Javier Castellanos, INVIMA, Colombia
• IGTC Perspectives on Low Level Presence
  Teresa Babuscio, IGTC, Belgium
• GAABT Perspectives on Low Level Presence
  Beat Späth, EuropaBio, Belgium
• The Economics of LLP Thresholds
  Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri, United States

Thursday 19 November 2015

Plenary Session 2: The Global Pipeline of GM Crops and its Implications for International Trade and Developing Countries

• Overview of the Global Pipeline of GM Crops
  Claudia Parisi, European Commission – JRC – IPTS, Spain
• The Brazilian Pipeline of GM Crops
  Marcelo Freitas, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brazil
• The Chinese Pipeline of GM Crops
  Lijuan Qiu, Chinese Soybean Association, China
• Low Levels of GM Crops in International Food/Feed Trade
  Masami Takeuchi, FAO, Italy

Plenary Session 3: The 'Opt-Out' Proposal of the European Commission

• Renationalising GM Cultivation in Europe: An Ethical Analysis
  Frans Brom, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, Netherlands
• GMOs Opt-Out: The Views of the EU Food and Feed ChainMarta Zuluaga, COCERAL, Belgium
• GM Import Opt-Out Proposal: FEFAC Perspective to Continue Supplying  the EU Feed and Livestock Sector
  Ruud Tijssens and Jaime Piçarra, FEFAC, Belgium
• GM Soy Production in the Americas: Today and Tomorrow
  Wellington Andrade, International Soy Growers Alliance, Uruguay

Friday 20 November 2015

Plenary Session 4: Socio-economic Issues of Coexistence

• Consistency of Assessment of Socio-Economic Considerations under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety with Other International Obligations
  Karinne Ludlow, Monash University, Australia
• Conceptual and Implementation Clarity of SECs and Biosafety Decision-Making
  Jose Falck-Zepeda, IFPRI, United States
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety’s Supplementary Agreement on Liability and Coexistence
  Phil Goldberg, Shook Hardy & Bacon, United States
• The Cost of Regulatory Delays on Genetically Modified Crops
  Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Plenary Session 5: GMOs, Coexistence, and TTIP

• Public Transparency in the TTIP Negations
  David Bullock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
• TTIP, Agrifood Trade and Regulatory Coherence
  Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• TTIP: An Opportunity Not to Be Missed
  Klaus Schumacher, COCERAL, Belgium

Session A1: New Plant Breeding Techniques – Extending the EU Technology Graveyard?

• An Important Upcoming Decision at EU Level in Context (What Has Happened So Far, Scientific Advice vs Legalistic Approach)
  Garlich von Essen
• Why Europe Needs Modern Plant Breeding
  Niels Louwaars
• Perspective from a European Technology Provider
  Michiel de Both
• Perspective from a U.S. Company with a Product Ready for Europe
  Tony Moran
• A Public Research Perspective
  René Custers

Session A2: Coexistence: Future Challenges

• The Current Status of GM/non-GM Canola Coexistence in Australian Broadacre Farming systems and likely future Challenges
  Keith Alcock
• Identity Preservation: Lessons from a Case Study Addressing GM and Non-GM Maize Supply Chains
  Carlos Trindade, Fátima Quedas, and João Ponte

Session A3: Comparative Studies of GMOs or Trade Agreements

• The Effects of TTIP Market Access Reform on EU Consumer Demand for Meat
  Amanda M. Leister and Andrew Muhammad
• Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Domestic Regulations: Impacts of the Proposed EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement on Wine Markets
  Bradley J. Rickard, Olivier Gergaud, Shuay-Tsyr Ho and Wenjing Hu
• The Product Line Strategy of a Seed Company in a Context with a Licensed GM TraitDelia Baghdasaryan, Etienne Campens and Stéphane Lemarié

Session A4: Socioeconomic Impact of Coexistence

• Positioning GM Food Product: Benefits, Risk and Loss Aversion Considerations
  Amir Heiman
• Indian Acceptance of Cisgenic Rice: Are All GMOs the Same?
  Aaron Shew, Lanier Nalley, Bruce Dixon, Diana Danforth, Rudy Nayga, Anne-Ceclie Delwaide
• Gaining Societal Acceptance of Biotechnology: The Case for Societal Engagement
  Rene Van Acker, Michael Lohuis, Camille Ryan, Eric Sachs

Session B1: Who Profits from Patents on Plant-related Inventions?

• What Intellectual Property Protection Exists for GMOs and Native Traits?
  Dominic Muyldermans
• Case Study on Ogura Oilseed Rape: Who Benefits from Intellectual Property Rights?
  Willem Ruster
• The Patent Holder’s Perspective
  Claire Lemontey
• A Licensee’s Perspective
  Rob Huijten
• An Oilseed Crusher’s Perspective
  Julie Roïz

Session B2: Coexistence at Crop, Farm, and Landscape Level (I)

• Modeling the Distribution of Adventitious GM Cross-Pollination in Agricultural Maize Fields
  Anna Nadal, Enric Melé, Joaquima Messeguer, Marina Melé-Messeguer, Montserrrat Palaudelmàs, Gisela Peñas, Xavier Piferrer, Gemma Capellades, Joan Serra and Maria Pla
• Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS) as a Biological Confinement Tool for Maize Coexistence: Optimization of Pollinator Spatial Arrangements
  Heidrun Bückmann, Gemma Capellades, Kateřina Hamouzová, Josef Holec, Joaquima Messeguer, Anna Nadal, Xavier Piferrer Guillen, Maria Pla, Joan Serra, Josef Soukup, Katja Thiele, and Joachim Schiemann
• Coexistence between Transgenic MON 810 Maize and Hives: Pollen and Flour Flow by Pollinator Bees and Honey Labelling
  Eugénia de Andrade, Maria Lopes, Mónica Rodrigues, Ana Chegão, Fátima Quedas, Amélia Lopes

Session B3: Labeling, Standards, and GMOs

• Labeling Demands, Coexistence and the Challenges for Trade
  Stuart Smyth, William A. Kerr and Peter Phillip
• Standards for GM Labeling and Trade
  Jason A. Winfree and Jill J. McCluskey
• Effects of a Home-Country Process Standard in the Case of GM Products
  Dragan Miljkovic
• Food Labels, Information and Trade in GMOs
  Wallace E. Huffman and Jill J. McCluskey

Session B4: The Contribution of Future Traits

• Use of an Iterative Delphi Forecasting Study to Identify Arable Crop Traits that Could, In the European Context, Enhance Economic Performance, Benefit the Environment, or Have Nutritional Advantages
  Ian McFarlane, Philip Jones, Julian Park, and Richard Tranter
• Next Biotech Plants: New Traits, Crops, Developers and Technologies for Addressing Global Challenges
  Agnes Ricroch and Marie-Cecile Henard-Damave
  

Session C1: Coexistence at Crop, Farm, and Landscape Level (II)

• An Analysis of the EU-US Agricultural Trade Liberalization under the TTIP Agreement
  Qianqian Shao, Maarten Punt, and Justus Wesseler
• Will the Institution of Coexistence be Re-defined by TTIP?
  Mariusz Maciejczak
• Ex-post Assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) Low Level Presence (LLP) in Canadian Flax
  Helen Booker, Eric Lamb, and Stuart Smyth

Session C2: Segregation in Food and Feed Supply Chains & GM Pipeline of New Events, Crops and Target Markets

• A Framework for the Socio-Economic Analysis of the Cultivation of GM Crops
  Jonas Kathage, Manuel Gómez-Barbero, and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo
• Uncertain and Irreversible Benefits and Costs from the Adoption of Bt Maize: Results from the MISTICS Model
  Maarten Punt
• Dairies Investment Decision in Voluntary GM-Free Labeling Standards in Germany
  Thomas J. Venus, Maarten Punt, and Justus Wesseler

Session C3: Practical Implementation of Coexistence in Europe (PRICE)

• An Exploration of the Constraints to Further Expansion of GM Maize Production in Portugal Through a Comparison of GM and Conventional Growers
  Philip Jones, Richard Tranter and Fátima Quedas
• Estimating Adventitious Presence and its UncertaintyAntoine Messéan and Arnaud Bensadoun
• Segregation of GM and Non-GM Feed and Food Supply Chains in the EU: Future Scenarios
  Francesca Passuello, Stefano Boccaletti and Claudio Soregaroli

Session C4: Public Engagement, Societal Acceptance of GMOs and Implications for Coexistence

• The Art of Risk Communication and Consumer Engagement in Food Distribution
  Sylvain Charlebois
• GMOs, the Media and the Public
  Dominique Brossard
• Humanizing Science to Build Trust and Advance Innovation
  Eric Sachs
  

Session D1: Adoption of GM Crops with Coexistence Measures in the EU: Economic Assessment Based on an Original Farm Survey

• Coexistence of Genetically Modified Soybean Crops with Conventional and Organic Farming
  Ivelin Rizov and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo
• Cost of Coexistence Measures and Potential Adoption of GM Crops by Farmers: Comparison from a Choice Experiment in 4 EU Countries
  Pascal Tillie and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo
• Burden and Attitudes of Farmers towards Coexistence Measures: Results From a Survey in the EU
  Thomas J. Venus

Session D2: Regulatory challenges of Coexistence

• Class Action Lawsuits and Anti-GM Litigation: The Legal Frontline of Coexistence
  Martin Phillipson
• Stacked-transgenic Events in Conventional Maize Seed Lots: Consequences of Unintentional Releases into Crop Fields
  Ana Chegão, Mónica Rodrigues, Fátima Quedas, Eugénia de Andrade
• Deciding over Controversial Issues: Voting Behavior in the Council and the European Parliament on GMOs
  Monika Muehlboeck and Jale Tosun
• To Mobilize or Not: Political Attention and the Regulation of GMOs
  Simon Schaub and Jale Tosun

Session D3: Welfare Effects of TPP and GMOs

• Trans-Pacific Partnership, GMOs, and Japan's Agricultural Trade
  Andrew Schmitz, David Zilberman and Manhong Zhu
• TPP and GMO Regulatory Systems: Any Hope for Successful Negotiations?
  Crina Viju, William A. Kerr and Stuart Smyth
• TTP and GMO Regulations: Trade Creation or Diversion for U.S. Corn, Cotton and Oil Seeds Exports
  Osei Agyeman Yeboah, Saleem Shaik and Afia Fosua Agyekum

Session D4: EU Regulations of New Biotechnologies and Implications for Coexistence

• Genetically Engineered Crops’ Approval Times in the US and the EU
  Richard Smart, Matthias Blum and Justus Wesseler
• Identification of the Regulatory Steps and Costs for Registering the INBIOSOIL Encapsulated Biological Control Agent
  Michael Ilegems and Francesca Tencalla
• The Economics and Environmental Benefits of Biological Control of Western Corn Rootworm Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera and Wiireworms Agriotes Spp. in Maize and Potatoes for Selected Countries in Europe
  Emmanuel Benjamin and Justus Wesseler