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2006-12-19 | permalink
EU upholds Austria’s sovereign right to ban GMOs
EU ministers slapped down an attempt on Monday to order Austria to drop its bans on two genetically modified (GMO) maize types, delivering a second stinging rebuff to the EU’s executive European Commission. Between 1997 and 2000, five EU countries banned specific GMOs on their territory, focusing on three maize and two rapeseed types approved shortly before the start of the EU’s six-year moratorium on new biotech authorisations. The Commission’s draft order, proposed in response to a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that attacked the various so-called national GMO safeguards for breaking international trade rules, was roundly rejected by EU environment ministers.
- Reuters: EU upholds Austria's sovereign right to ban GMOs
- Law.com, USA: EU rejects appeal on biotech crops
- Friends of the Earth Europe, Belgium: EU votes to defy WTO ruling on GM foods
- Greenpeace European Unit, Belgium: Briefing - Vote on Austrian GMO bans at EU Environment Council, 18 December 2006
- Friends of the Earth Europe, Belgium: Ministers vote on GMO bans
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2006-12-19 | permalink
EU upholds Austria’s sovereign right to ban GMOs
EU ministers slapped down an attempt on Monday to order Austria to drop its bans on two genetically modified (GMO) maize types, delivering a second stinging rebuff to the EU’s executive European Commission. Between 1997 and 2000, five EU countries banned specific GMOs on their territory, focusing on three maize and two rapeseed types approved shortly before the start of the EU’s six-year moratorium on new biotech authorisations. The Commission’s draft order, proposed in response to a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that attacked the various so-called national GMO safeguards for breaking international trade rules, was roundly rejected by EU environment ministers.
- Reuters: EU upholds Austria's sovereign right to ban GMOs
- Law.com, USA: EU rejects appeal on biotech crops
- Friends of the Earth Europe, Belgium: EU votes to defy WTO ruling on GM foods
- Greenpeace European Unit, Belgium: Briefing - Vote on Austrian GMO bans at EU Environment Council, 18 December 2006
- Friends of the Earth Europe, Belgium: Ministers vote on GMO bans
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