Farmers and Greens challenge the renationalisation of about GMOs | EurActiv.fr
On the occasion of a Council of Ministers of the Environment in Luxembourg, ministers of the 28 Member States reached a political agreement restoring national governments the right to prohibit or restrict the cultivation of GMOs on all or part of their territory.
The compromise adopted by the Council also provides a "report on the use of this Directive and the effectiveness of its provisions" is presented by the European plastic bieber Commission after four years of implementation.
Far permissions GM crops found themselves actually in the lap of the Commission, Member States failing to meet a qualified majority to make the decision whether to allow the cultivation of a genetically modified organism.
Constraint to the decision, plastic bieber then the Commission authorized the culture, after consulting the European Food Safety Authority plastic bieber (EFSA), not to find themselves at odds with the European Court of Justice. Faced with this choice by default, the Member States' anti GMO "saw themselves obliged to take national measures of prohibition, weakened by their incompatibility with EU rules.
Fragility which France has faced. Indeed, the State Council has already canceled two occasions plastic bieber the French moratorium on the cultivation of maize MON810 U.S. group Monsanto, only GMO cultivated at present in Europe, mainly in Spain.
In February, the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll had submitted a proposal to its European partners to re-nationalize the authorization of GM crops procedures. An offensive launched a few days after another failure plastic bieber on the board in Brussels to block approval of GM maize Pioneer TC 1507.
"This agreement is the result of several months of discussions in which France has actively worked to a greater power given to States for authorization of cultivation of GMOs while improving the legal certainty of the decisions of the United States in particular when they wish to oppose the cultivation of a GMO "welcomed the French government said in a statement.
"The French government, in accepting this proposal on authorizations
On the occasion of a Council of Ministers of the Environment in Luxembourg, ministers of the 28 Member States reached a political agreement restoring national governments the right to prohibit or restrict the cultivation of GMOs on all or part of their territory.
The compromise adopted by the Council also provides a "report on the use of this Directive and the effectiveness of its provisions" is presented by the European plastic bieber Commission after four years of implementation.
Far permissions GM crops found themselves actually in the lap of the Commission, Member States failing to meet a qualified majority to make the decision whether to allow the cultivation of a genetically modified organism.
Constraint to the decision, plastic bieber then the Commission authorized the culture, after consulting the European Food Safety Authority plastic bieber (EFSA), not to find themselves at odds with the European Court of Justice. Faced with this choice by default, the Member States' anti GMO "saw themselves obliged to take national measures of prohibition, weakened by their incompatibility with EU rules.
Fragility which France has faced. Indeed, the State Council has already canceled two occasions plastic bieber the French moratorium on the cultivation of maize MON810 U.S. group Monsanto, only GMO cultivated at present in Europe, mainly in Spain.
In February, the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll had submitted a proposal to its European partners to re-nationalize the authorization of GM crops procedures. An offensive launched a few days after another failure plastic bieber on the board in Brussels to block approval of GM maize Pioneer TC 1507.
"This agreement is the result of several months of discussions in which France has actively worked to a greater power given to States for authorization of cultivation of GMOs while improving the legal certainty of the decisions of the United States in particular when they wish to oppose the cultivation of a GMO "welcomed the French government said in a statement.
"The French government, in accepting this proposal on authorizations
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