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2009-01-16 |

EU ministers to examine GM rapeseed and carnation types

EU farm ministers will consider next week whether to approve imports of two genetically modified products, a rapeseed type and a carnation flower, but are unlikely to break their long deadlock over biotechnology. Diplomats said the two applications, scheduled for the ministers’ meeting on Monday, would probably end in the usual voting stalemate that eventually leads to a default approval by the European Commission when ministers fail to reach consensus.

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2009-01-16 |

EU ministers to examine GM rapeseed and carnation types

EU farm ministers will consider next week whether to approve imports of two genetically modified products, a rapeseed type and a carnation flower, but are unlikely to break their long deadlock over biotechnology. Diplomats said the two applications, scheduled for the ministers’ meeting on Monday, would probably end in the usual voting stalemate that eventually leads to a default approval by the European Commission when ministers fail to reach consensus.

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