Overview of cultivation and field release of genetically modified organisms in the Federal Länder of Germany

The number of notified sites is shown in brackets. The data of the current year are subject to dynamic changes (new notifications/withdrawals).
Only notifications without exception (e.g. ban on cultivation) are shown here.
Year of Cultivation/Experimental Release
All  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  2012  2013 
Federal Land Cultivation in m2 Field release in m2 Total area in m2
Baden-Wuerttemberg

73454

(6)

1932

(2)

75386

(8)
Bavaria

59328

(14)

36388

(13)

95716

(27)
Berlin

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)
Brandenburg

13469073

(61)

2916

(11)

13471989

(72)
Bremen

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)
Hamburg

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)
Hesse

2450

(2)

10

(1)

2460

(3)
Lower Saxony

176050

(10)

47416

(6)

223466

(16)
Mecklenburg-
Western Pommerania

6380729

(25)

535526

(20)

6916255

(45)
North Rhine-Westphalia

378

(1)

4728

(2)

5106

(3)
Rhineland-Palatinate

3396

(2)

15000

(2)

18396

(4)
Saarland

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)
Saxony

5561522

(34)

5508

(9)

5567030

(43)
Saxony-Anhalt

1124467

(15)

26792

(12)

1151259

(27)
Schleswig-Holstein

250

(1)

1536

(1)

1786

(2)
Thuringia

2419

(3)

240

(2)

2659

(5)