Although only MON 810 maize is cultivated in the EU, the European Commission and a few member states will seek to obtain authorisation over the next few weeks for the cultivation of two other varieties of transgenic maize – DuPont Pioneer's 1507 and Syngenta's Bt 11 – and to renew the authorisation for growing MON 810 in the EU.
Due in part to the fact that two of these kinds of maize are herbicide-resistant, MEPs at the European Parliament's environment committee in Strasbourg...