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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9863

18 March 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture
Vote on report on biotechnology in agriculture will wait

Brussels, 17/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 16 March in Brussels, the EP agriculture committee decided to postpone the vote on the own-initiative report on “biotechnology: prospects and challenges for agriculture in Europe”, probably until the new legislature. The rapporteur for this dossier, Kyösti Virrankoski (ALDE, Finland), requested postponement given the very large number of amendments submitted. The other EP political groups agreed, underlining how difficult it is to...

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