Corporate Watch GE briefings: Aventis

Footnotes

April 2000

Contents

Why Aventis?
Farm-scale trials, role in GM, strategy for GM crops, greenwash, dealing with regulators

What Aventis?
Aventis merger, UK operations, corporate structure and commercial activities, Aventis CropScience key products, financial details countries of operations

More Aventis?
GMO crimes, other eco-crimes, activism against Aventis, attitude to activists

Whose Aventis?
Who else and Aventis?GM partnerships, Other partnerships, other contractors, lobbying, PR, lawyers,

Where Aventis?
GM-related work, Aventis -owned sites, farm trial sites

Who Aventis?
Senior staff working on GM, PR slimers, directors

Footnotes

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1. DETR
2. FoE, press release, 9/8/99
3. more info on Aventis' oilseed rape
4. FoE briefing "Bees, Honey and genetically modified crops - 1999, citing Williamson, I. 1996 "Aspects of bee diversity and crop pollination in the European Union" in A Matheson, SL Buchmann, C O'Toole, P Westrich and I Williams (eds) The Conservation of Bees Academic Press.
5. FoE briefing "Bees, Honey and genetically modified crops - 1999 citing Wilkinson, JE, D Twell and K Lindsey. 1997 "Activities of CaMV 35S and nos promoters in pollen: implications for field release of transgenic plants" Journal of Experimental Botany Vol 48 (307) pp 265-275.
6. Biotech Activists, 04/02/00: In search of horizontal gene transfer -
7. ENDS Report #285, Oct '98, p.34
8. Consent no. 98/R19/18
9. Has approval for marketing in Europe, so doesn't require consent, but doesn't have plant variety listing in UK so can't be sold to farmers.
10. Financial Times ; 18-Mar-2000. Meacher plea for GM trials.
11. GeneWatch, 'Farm scale trials: answering the safety questions about GM crops?', July 1999, citing Parliamentary Question (PQ) #85272, 8/6/99.
12.www2.aventis.com
13. Calculation based on estimates of size of trials. Aventis have by far the greatest number of deliberate release sites in the UK.
14. FoE press release Wednesday 9 February 2000 GM Crops: Government to give go ahead to commercial licensing.
15. The Mirror 01/03/2000
16. FoE press release 29 March 2000.
17. ENDS Report #283, Aug '98, p.20
18. Reuters, Bogota, March 1 2000.
19. www.cropscience.aventis.com
20. Speech by Jürgen Dormann - Aventis Chief Executive Officer, Frankfurt 26/10/99.
21. www.aventis.com
22. Speech: Protecting global biodiversity through the Life Counts project. Jürgen Dormann.
23. www.wcmc.org.uk
24. www.wbcsd.ch
25. www.corpwatch.org
26. CropGen mission statement
27. www.aventis.co.uk
28. www.aventis.co.uk
29. Le Monde 08-02-00.
30. presentation at Ceres Forum of Food and Products from Plant Biotechnology II, 8/6/98, Berlin. Viewed September 1999.
31. Guardian 4/8/99.
32. Independent, 19/3/99; PQ no. 70555.
33.www2.aventis.com
34. Pat Mooney, The Parts of Life, Agriculture Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Role of the Third System, Development Dialogue 1996:1-2, p 15, November 1997.
35.www.christian-aid.org.uk. or contact Christian Aid on 0171 620 4444.
36. www2.aventis.com
37.www2.aventis.com
38. Aventis press release 3 Feb 2000.
39. Financial Times ; 27-Mar-2000. Companies & Finance: International: Aventis suffers merger malaise.
40. Chemical Business Newsbase, La Tribuen Desfosses 15/12/1999.
41. www2.aventis.com
42. Chemistry In Britain, 5/7/99, 'Aventis Terms Altered'
43. PR Newswire 20/12/1999.
44. Investext Broker Reports 16/12/1999.
45. Chemie Hebdo, 26/7/99, p.29.
46. Eastern Daily Press, 2/12/98, p.23.
47. Financial News 22/02/99, 'Trust, not range, is issue for clients'.
48. Financial Times, 13/7/99, p.32.
49. www2.aventis.com
50. www2.aventis.com
51. Biotech Patent News, vol.10, no.10.
52. www2.aventis.com
53. Phone call to the company.
54. SeedLink Liberty Link - viewed Sep'99
55. Judith Jordan, Guardian 18/8/99
56. Topsy Jewell, 'Glufosinate and Genetic Engineering', Nov '96.
57. Pesticides Trust, Glufosinate Ammonium fact sheet, 1998
58. AgrEvo 1998 Annual Report.
59. Aventis press release 03-02-00.
60.www2.aventis.com
61. www2.aventis.com
62. www2.aventis.com
63. Source: Company data, Credit Suisse First Boston estimates. Investext Broker Reports 16/12/1999.
64. Chemical Business Newsbase, Chemie Hebdo 07/02/2000 P11.
65. converted using FT.com's currency converter 02 April 2000. $1= £0.62798 / euro 1.04679.
66. AgrEvo press release, 20/5/99.
67. AgrEvo press release 22/12/98.
68. Business World (Philippines) 02/02/2000 P6.
69. Bangkok Post 12/01/2000.
70. AgrEvo press release 24/2/99.
71. Hindustan Times - India, 14-Dec-1999.
72. Interfax News Agency, Weekly Business Report 22/02/2000.
73. Gazeta Mercantil - English Summary 04/02/2000.
74. Polish News Bulletin Company 21/12/1999.
75. Aventis in secret GM trials.
76. FoE press release, 20/8/99.
77. Reuters News Service, Feb 17 2000
78. New Scientist, 4/4/98, p.2.
79. Independent 10/04/99 p13.
80. Global Pesticide Campaigner, 1/9/95, cited in EC #54, Aug / Sept 1998, res.supp. p. 16.
81. Gazeta Mercantil Online, 20/4/99, 'Genetically engineered rice set to burn'
82. GenEthics News #21, 1/12/97, p.12.
83. Global Pesticide Campaigner, June '96, p.20.
84. 'Article series in Dagens Nyheter, 5/10/97 - 5/11-97. Tre Byar Bjäre Naturskyddsförening
85. Farmers Weekly, Vol.128,#13, 21/4/98, 'AgrEvo admits pollution'.
86. Daily Telegraph 02/05/98 p.10.
87. Ecologist 28/2, March/April 1998, p.60.
88. Ecologist Mar/Apr '96, p.C3.
89. Pesticides News, 1/12/97, p.3.
90. Greenpeace International - 'Taking back our stolen future - hormone disruption', 1/4/96.
91. Courier Mail (Brisbane), 02/03/99, 'Cotton chemical `causes mutations Global Pesticide Campaigner, 1/7/96, cited in ibid.
92. Greenpeace Business, 1/6/95, cited in ibid.
93. Successful Prosecutions under the EPA 1990, and ENDS Report 1/12/94, both cited in ibid.
94. ENDS Report, 1/12/95, cited in ibid.
95. Financial Times, 29-Mar-2000.
96. Farmers Weekly, 16/7/99, 'Companies hang fire with GM seed in face of antis'.
97. Genetic Engineering Network.
98. Reuters News Service, Paris, December 15 1999.
99. Chemical Business Newsbase, Chemie Hebdo 10/01/2000 P1.
100. Genetix Snowball press releases, 13/4/99 and 16/4/99.
101. Times, 22/6/98, p.10.
102. Independent, 18/6/98, p.8.
103. AFX Europe ; 08-Feb-2000.
104. List of shareholders compiled by ORT, a French information company. It is assembled through collecting various information from public and private sources, and is not 100% complete.
105. FT company brief
106. Problem Drugs (1/9/93) p.18, by Health Action International.
107. Filthy 50 (1/9/92) p.2, by Greenpeace.
108. Schering 1998 Annual Report.
109. Companies House search.
110. www.iacr.bbsrc.ac.uk
111. Business Wire 28/02/2000.
112. Les Echos 06/03/2000 P18.
113. The Bowditch Group Electronic AgBiotech Newsletter 191.
114. Business Wire 10/9/98, 'Gene Logic Names Stephen Push'.
115. Business Wire March 2, 2000.
116. Les Echos 29/02/2000 P12.
117. Chemische Rundschau, Vol. 53, No. 3, p10.
118. Chimie Hebdo, No. 73, p8.
119. PRNewswire March 9 2000
120. PR Newswire, 11/1/99, 'MSI, AgrEvo sign software agreement'.
121. Cambridge Evening News 11/2/99 'Agrochemicals giant gives contract to Network Design'.
122. M2 Presswire, 11/9/97, '121 Consulting win £250,000 contract to supply NatWest'.
123. M2 Presswire 30/9/96, 'AgrEvo outsources telecommunications to GPT'
124. Times of India 26/02/2000.
125. www.cropgen.org
126. FoE press release 16 March 2000.
127. www.iacr.bbsrc.ac.uk
128. PR Week 25/02/2000 P1.
129. Shandwick International plc, Final results, 11/2/98.
130. www.aventis.co.uk
131. www2.aventis.com
132. Alan Simpson MP, PQ to Secretary of State (DETR), #85948, 5/7/99.
133. Essex Chronicle 06/01/2000.
134. Independent, 19/3/99; PQ no. 70555.
135. Farming News 18/02/2000 P13.
136. Phone call to BAA, April 2000. In May 2000 a new chairman will be elected.
137. letter from Paul Rylott to Annette Smith, 18/6/99; field trials agreement with Mr R Duguid of Home Farm, Lincs, 30/4/99.
138. Aberdeen Press & Journal, 16/2/99, 'Government accused of GM industry links'.
139. Yorkshire Post 10/3/97 P6, 'Scientists hope 'genetic' seeds will beat herbicide'.
140. public register 98/R19/18.
141. Affidavit of MA Read in the High Court of Justice, AgrEvo UK Ltd and Plant Genetic Systems NV vs Jo Hamilton et al, 1999 A.No.300.
142. Cambridge Evening News 08/08/98 Crop firms dismiss 'superweed' claims.
143. Farming News 21/01/2000 P15.
144. All directors from Companies House appointments search.
145. Aberdeen Press & Journal, 16/6/99, 'German firm plans third plot of GM rape'.

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