25/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - Greenpeace has warned the European Commission saying: If, on 29 November, it decides to force five EU Member States to lift their ban on a number of GMOs (genetically modified organisms), then it could weaken its own position at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), playing into US hands where an ongoing case, launched in 2003, accuses the EU Commission and Member States of groundlessly blocking entry for GMOS into Europe. Greenpeace recalls that France, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Greece imposed bans between 1997 and 2000 for security reasons. Eric Gall, of Greenpeace, states in a press release that, in so doing, the EU will strengthen US arguments "against EU countries using the precautionary principle, even though this is enshrined in EU law and in the Biosafety Protocol, an internationally binding agreement".