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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9457

29 June 2007
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council
BASF GMO potato withdrawn from agenda - dossier to be passed on to Portuguese presidency

Luxembourg, 28/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - EU27 environment ministers were to vote, on 28 June, on the Commission's proposal aimed at authorising genetically modified potatoes produced by the company BASF, but they did not have to do so in the end. The German Presidency finally withdrew this point from the Environment Council's agenda. Announcing withdrawal to the press, Sigmar Gabriel, Council President, explained that changes in the request for authorisation of this product had changed the...

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