Brussels, 12/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - Responding cautiously to the Commission proposal to give member states the power to restrict or ban within their borders crops of EU-approved GMOs, the European Parliament (EP) environment committee, chaired by Jo Leinen (S&D, Germany) elected to bring amendments on first reading to strengthen the text, rather than simply rejecting it.
Following the lead of their rapporteur, Corinne Lepage (ALDE, France), MEPs on the committee voted by 34 votes to 10,...