Brussels, 08/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Provisional measures adopted by France in 2007 and 2008 banning the cultivation, use and marketing of genetically modified maize MON 810 (see EUROPE 9577) as “emergency measures” should have been adopted on the basis of Regulation 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed and not of the safeguard clause provided for in Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). That being so,...