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Introduction to Appendix 3
This volume is one of the appendix volumes to the report of the Royal
Commission on Genetic Modification to the New Zealand Government on its
investigations into the strategic options and desirable changes to regulatory
mechanisms to enable New Zealand to address genetic modification, genetically
modified organisms, and products.
There are three appendix volumes covering the New Zealand context, the
Commission's consultative processes and the outcomes of that consultation:
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Appendix 1 outlines the New Zealand context for the inquiry and records
the major aspects of the processes of the Commission.
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Appendix 2 summarises and analyses submissions from Interested Persons.
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Appendix 3 summarises and analyses submissions from the Public.
This appendix volume (Appendix 3) covers written and oral public submissions
arising from the Commission's consultation process. These submissions were
received through Scoping Meetings, Public Meetings, Public Submissions, the
Maori Consultation programme, a Youth Forum and a Public Opinion Survey.
This appendix also includes glossaries (technical terms, Maori terms and
abbreviations) and an index.
Quotations, abbreviations and macrons
This volume includes direct quotations from submissions. Many quotations are
sentence fragments. Minor changes have been made to direct quotations for the
sake of readability and consistency. Thus:
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realize, e.g., 1990's, GMO's have been changed to realise, eg, 1990s, GMOs
respectively, in line with the report style
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abbreviation of NZ in quoted material has been replaced by New Zealand and
biotech by biotechnology, but other abbreviations (such as GE, GMO, IP) have
been retained
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punctuation has sometimes been altered so that an initial capital is replaced
by a lower-case letter when the direct quotation functions as a sentence
fragment in the text, rather than a complete sentence
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ellipses (...), normally indicating the omission of words or sentences within
the quotation, are used at the opening or closing of the quotation only if it is
relevant to signal a continuing argument or theme.
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No changes to quotations affect the meaning intended by the submitter.
The format for quotations depends on their extent or context in the report
structure. Two formats have been used:
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Short quotations, including sentence fragments, are incorporated in normal
paragraphs and are indicated by quotation marks.
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Longer quotations, usually passages of several sentences or paragraphs, are
presented as an indented paragraph or paragraphs below a colon. They are
in a smaller type size and indented on the left. These quotations do not use
quotation marks.
The choice of format is determined by the context and does not indicate that one
quotation is considered more important than any other.
In referring to organisations and Interested Persons, this volume uses the title in
full at first mention in each subsection of the report and thereafter uses any
designated abbreviated form or acronym. This procedure is repeated for each
subsection. For example, in any subsection, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
will subsequently be referred to as Malaghan Institute, and Environmental Risk
Management Authority (ERMA) will be followed by ERMA. The choices for
abbreviated forms of Interested Persons are listed in Appendix 2, Table 1. Other
abbreviations and acronyms are recorded in the Glossaries section of this volume.
The printed version of the report of the Commission adopts the common modern
usage of macrons over long vowels in Maori terms. A glossary of Maori terms is
included in this volume.