Brussels, 05/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 4 December, the Environment Council took a clear stance in favour of improving environmental risk assessment and procedures for authorising genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the EU - a success for the French EU Presidency, who had made this concern one of its environmental priorities during its term of office. This was to ensure the functioning of scientific expertise to better take into account the legitimate concerns relating to...