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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11314

14 May 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) food safety
No trialogue agreement on novel foods

Brussels, 13/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 12 May, during a trialogue meeting, the EU institutions failed to reach an agreement on EU rules for novel foods. Negotiations particularly focused on the question of cloning and whether novel foods should be adopted by delegated or implementing acts.

The negotiations in 2011 on novel foods broke down on the question of cloning. The Commission produced three proposals (one of them covering the mechanism on new foods and to specific proposals...