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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10571

10 March 2012
SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) environment
GMO crops - still no agreement in Council

Brussels, 09/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - It came as no surprise. On 9 March, in Brussels, the environment ministers failed to reach a political agreement on the proposal for a regulation dated July 2011 aimed at amending EU legislation to give member states the option of banning or limiting GMO crops on their territory although those very same crops might be authorised elsewhere in the EU (see EUROPE 10570 and 10556). Despite the countless efforts made by the Danish Presidency to rally the...

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