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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8509

23 July 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Portugal urge for regulatory approach to problem of GMo and non-GMo coexistence

Brussels, 22/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - Farm Ministers of the EU Member States held a brief exchange of views on Tuesday on the problem of coexistence between genetically modified crops and the other conventional or organic crops. Germany, Austria (above all), Luxembourg and Portugal (to a lesser extent) recommended that a Community regulation should be set in place as quickly as possible to deal with this problem, while France's attitude was less cut-and-dried calling for guidelines to be...

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