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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9930
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council

Commission again under pressure to reform GMO authorisation rules

Brussels, 26/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - The debate on GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and procedures for authorising their cultivation was relaunched in Luxembourg on 25 June, at an informal exchange of views in the Environment Council (see EUROPE 9928). This issue, raised at the request of Austria which wants the Commission very quickly to review Community legislation to give member states the choice of agreeing to, or refusing, the planting of GMOs, created a debate which ratcheted up...

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