ACRE provides advice to ministers, and publishes an annual report on its work. ACRE sub-groups may also publish reports on their work, and these are detailed on the individual sub-group pages.

Annual Report

• Annual Report No. 17 (2010) (Published 27 April 2011)
• Annual Report No. 16 (2009) (Published 21 June 2010)

We only retain the current and previous annual reports on the website – if you need older versions please contact the ACRE Secretariat.

Advice to ministers

See Defra’s GM Regulation pages for details of consents granted, UK opinions on EU cases etc.

2012

• Advice on imports and processing of GM crops submitted under regulation EC 1829/2003. Genetically modified crops that have a limited potential to grow and flower outside of agricultural conditions in the UK (April 2012) (published 27 April 2012)
• Advice on a GM prostate cancer vaccine research trial (December 2011) (published 5 January 2012)

2011

• Advice on imports and processing of GM crop submitted under regulation EC 1829/2003. Genetically modified crops that have a limited potential to grow and flower outside of agricultural conditions in the UK (October 2011) (published 31 October 2011)
• Advice on a GM wheat research trial (September 2011) (published 16 September 2011)
• Advice on a plant breeding technique involving oligo-directed mutagensis: RTDS™  (March 2011) (published 28 June 2011)
• Advice on a GM typhoid vaccine research trial (March 2011)
• Advice published on food and feed notifications submitted under Regulation (EC)1829/2003. General advice on notifications for import and processing of GM crops that are unable to grow under UK conditions (March 2011)
• Report published on ACRE information-gathering workshop on GM insects (March 2011)

2010

• Advice on an application for deliberate release of a potato genetically modified for resistance to potato late blight – Sainsbury Laboratory ref. 10/R29/01 May 2010 (published 21 May 2010)
• Advice on an application for deliberate release of a potato genetically modified for resistance to potato cyst nematodes-University of Leeds ref. 09/R31/01 March 2010 (published 29 March 2010)
• Advice on a notification for marketing of a carnation genetically modified for petal colour and herbicide tolerance, line IFD-25958-3 – Florigene Ltd ref. C/NL/09/01 December 2009 (published 29 March 2010)
• Advice on a notification for marketing of a carnation genetically modified for petal colour and herbicide tolerance, line IFD-26407-2 – Florigene Ltd ref. C/NL/09/02 December 2009 (published 29 March 2010)
• Advice on a notification for marketing of a carnation genetically modified for petal colour and herbicide tolerance, line Florigene Moonshadow – Florigene Ltd ref. C/NL/97/13-1363A December 2009 (published 29 March 2010)

Eailier publications are available on the ACRE pages of the National Archive website.