SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) gmo

Commission comes back to proposal over “à la carte” crops

Brussels, 10/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the European Commission called on the Council of the EU to give approval on Tuesday 11 February to its proposal to authorise cultivation of the highly controversial genetically modified TC 1507 maize by the US company Pioneer Dupont in the EU. It also calls on the Council to allow member states, subject to very strict conditions, to restrict or ban on their territory GMOs that have been authorised in the EU (see EUROPE 11014). Tonio Borg,...