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Understanding that genetic use restriction technology (GURT), or suicide seed technology, is a set of genetic modification (GM), or genetic engineering (GE), techniques that threatens the integrity of non-GM plants as well as the independence of low-income farmers who save seeds -- if one farmer plants suicide seeds, his suicide plants can contaminate the fields of neighboring farmers, whose non-GM plants, in turn, become sterile, thus making it necessary for all of them to purchase new seeds the following year,

Realizing that Resolution 249, Stopping Suicide Seeds, was repealed by Resolution 366 on false pretenses, namely the untruthful claim that Resolution 249 imposed "an outright ban" on suicide seeds,

Recognizing that proponents of the repeal resolution made assurances that replacement legislation would be forthcoming, a promise that was never (intended to be) fulfilled,

Resolved, therefore, to reinstate basic regulatory protections for the environment and for the world's subsistence and small farmers against the exploitation of multinational biotech corporations that are bent on sterilizing non-GM crops (environmental destruction) and, by this means, on making the millennia-old practice of seed saving obsolete (monopolization),

1. Defines, for use in this resolution, the following types of GURT:

Variety genetic use restriction technology (V-GURT): a GM technique that renders the seeds of a plant sterile;

Trait genetic use restriction technology (T-GURT): a GM technique that leads to plants whose seeds are fertile; but those seeds must be treated with a special chemical (or chemicals), usually one that is produced only by a certain company, so that they will grow properly or so that the plants grown from them will (more) fully express their genetic traits;

2. Requires that all member states ban or strictly regulate V-GURT and T-GURT;

3. Mandates that all companies, corporations, and other such entities that are engaged in GURT and in international commerce within the jurisdiction of this Assembly disclose to the World Assembly Food and Drug Regulatory Agency (WAFDRA) all relevant information regarding their activities related to GURT;

4. Forbids private, for-profit entities from using government funding to engage in GURT or GURT research subject to the provisions of this resolution and other active resolutions enacted by this Assembly;

5. Prohibits the transport across a national border, without preapproval from WAFDRA, of any plant or seed that has been modified using GURT subject to the provisions of this resolution and other active resolutions enacted by this Assembly;

6. Calls upon member states, in their foreign policies (especially their trade policies) and in their laws regulating the biotechnology industry, to discourage misuse of GURT in other member states and in nonmember states; and

7. Clarifies that GURT, with proper regulatory oversight, may have some legitimate scientific uses and also that this resolution shall not be construed as international disapproval of other GM techniques.