In a ruling made on Thursday 15 December, the General Court of the EU decided that the European Commission does not have to revise its decision not to re-examine the authorisation granted to Monsanto to market products containing genetically modified soya, as demanded by three German NGOs.
In this case (T-177/13), the Court was asked to make a ruling on a decision adopted on the subject by the Commission following a request for an internal re-examination under the “Aarhus regulation”,...