COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Gmo

Emergency measures to ban cultivation cannot be based on principle of precaution alone

Brussels, 30/03/2017 (Agence Europe)

To adopt emergency measures regarding genetically modified food or animal feed, the member states of the EU cannot rely solely on the principle of precaution, Advocate General Michal Bobek told the Court Justice of the EU on Thursday 30 March.

This case (C-111/16) concerns the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810, the EU authorisation of which has had many repercussions over the last 20 years (see EUROPE 11713).  The Court has been asked only to rule on a specific issue that...