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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9767

23 October 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council
Reflection sees progress on improving evaluation procedure for environmental risks and authorisation of GMOs

Brussels, 22/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 20 October in Luxembourg, the Environment Council held a further exchange of views on ways of improving the assessment and authorisation procedures for GMOs in an EU which increasingly stresses the environmental dimension of the assessment of long-term risks - an area which is not a privileged field of competence of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). But aside from this concern, the Council also offered the opportunity to take account of the...

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