SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) gmo

Authorisation of Pioneer's TC 1507 maize imminent

Brussels, 13/06/2014 (Agence Europe) - The cultivation of TC 1507 maize by Pioneer-Dupont will soon be authorised in the EU, despite the political position of 19 member states (see EUROPE 11092 and 11022). Speaking to the press in Luxembourg on Thursday 12 June, after the Environment Council which gave its political blessing to the draft amendment of the legislation (Directive 2011/18/EC) to allow the member states to limit or ban on their territory the cultivation of GMOs authorised in the...