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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7726

27 May 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
Community and 14 Member States sign Protocol on Biosafety - Margot Wallström welcomes move forward

Brussels, 26/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Protocol on Biosafety, a binding instrument that will govern the international trade of live genetically modified organisms on the basis of the precautionary principle, was signed this week in Nairobi (Kenya) by 61 countries, the European Community and its Member States (except Luxembourg which, not being represented in Nairobi, will sign during the month of June). The result of extremely arduous negotiations between 140 governments, the so-called...

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