Scrutinizing the current practice of the environmental risk assessment of GM maize applications for cultivation in the EU

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 2 Overview of non-European and European field trials for the collection of agronomic data for GMPs

GMP	Years: non-European countries	Years: European countries/no. of locations	Herbicide applied (European trials only)
Maize MON810	-	-	-
Maize Bt 11	-	1995: FR/-	glu-
Maize 1507	-	2000: FR+IT+BG/3+2+1	glu+/glu-^a
		2002: ES/3	glu-
Maize NK603	1999: US	2000-2001: DE/4	gly-
		2002: FR/4	gly-
Maize 59122	2002/2003: CL	2003: BG/3	glu+/glu-^b
	2003: US, CA	2004: BG+ES/3+3
Maize 1507 × NK603	-	2003: BG+ES/2+3	gly+ fb glu+
Maize NK603 × MON810	2002: US	-	-

Two-letter country codes refer to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (IT, Italy; ES, Spain; FR, France; BG, Bulgaria; DE, Germany; CA, Canada; CL, Chile; US, United States). '-', no data/information provided in the application; glu+, treatment with glufosinate; glu-, no treatment with glufosinate; gly+, treatment with glyphosate; gly-, no treatment with glyphosate; fb, followed by.
^aNo statistics applied; ^bagronomic parameters were assessed in non-treated plants only.