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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11366

25 July 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
Concerns confirmed at WTO on EU's GMO proposals

Brussels, 24/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - During a meeting of the WTO's committee on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 July, several WTO member countries raised their concerns about the European Commission's proposal to leave the EU member states more freedom to restrict or forbid the use of GMOs in human food and animal feed.

The US believes the draft review of the EU rules on the commercialisation of GMOs, tabled by the Commission on 22 April (see EUROPE...