Brussels, 22/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - In an opinion published on Tuesday 22 March 2011 in combined cases C58/10 to C68/10 at the European Court of Justice, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi says that the February 2008 decision by the French government to stop growing Monsanto's genetically-modified maize, MON 810, in France is illegal.
MON 810 was first authorised in France in 1998 under EU Directive 90/220/EEC on the voluntary spread of genetically-modified organisms (GMO) into the...