g. The Expert Committee would be free to review reports or
studies authored by national and international scientists if
it was felt necessary. The petitioners opined that they
would like to formally propose three Expert Reports from
Prof. David Andow, Prof. Jack Heinemann and Dr. Doug
Gurian Sherman to be a formal part of the Committee’s
deliberations. The MoEF may similarly nominate which
experts they choose in this exercise.
3. The Court will highly appreciate if the said Committee
submits its final report to the Court within three months from
today.
4. The Committee may hear the Government, petitioners
and any other intervenor in this petition, who, in the opinion
of the Committee, shall help the cause of expeditious and
accurate finalization of its report.
5. In the event and for any reason whatsoever, the
Committee is unable to submit its final report to the Court
within the time stipulated in this order, we direct that the
Committee should instead submit its interim report within the
same period to the Court on the following issue: “Whether
there should or should not be any ban, partial or otherwise,
upon conducting of open field tests of the GMOs? In the event
open field trials are permitted, what protocol should be followed and conditions,JUDGMENTif any, that may be imposed by the
Court for implementation of open field trials.”
7. Let the matter stand over to 6th August, 2012.
(S.H. Kapadia)
(A.K. Patnaik)
(Swatanter Kumar) New Delhi May 10, 2012