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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10558
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SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) gmo

France calls on Commission to suspend growing of MON 810 maize

Brussels, 21/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the French government asked the European Commission to suspend, as a matter of urgency, the authorisation to grow genetically modified MON 810 maize by Monsanto, on the basis of new scientific reports. This initiative aiming to invoke a new safeguard clause, after the Court of Justice of the EU and the Council of State overturned a previous safeguard clause, was announced by Paris in late January (see EUROPE 10538). It was confirmed on...

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