EU court deals blow to French-led anti-GM crops lobby

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EU court deals blow to French-led anti-GM crops lobby

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The advocate-general also said France cannot now invoke a safeguard clause inserted into European Union law aimed at preventing the release of GM cells into the environment.

The MON 810 strain, which the court said is "particularly resistant to parasites and used as animal feed," was first authorised in 1998.

In 2007, Monsanto applied for re-authorisation, valid for 10 years, but France adopted national laws in December that year and February 2008 outlawing its growing, amid public outcry in a famously proud traditional farming nation over the march of GM crops.

The safeguard clause, however, may not be invoked by states on their own, and besides, in this instance, the company was not informed of the legal basis for its exclusion from the French market -- which the court also said was the wrong legal basis.


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1. Working link here:

http://www.france24.com/en/20110322-eu-court-deals-blow-french-led-anti-gm-crops-lobby

Not sure what your link at the end has to do with this.

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2. Thanks -- it was a link that had to do with a different post -- !!

Repeating the link for the article -- !!

ttp://www.france24.com/en/20110322-eu-court-deals-blow-french-led-anti-gm-crops-lobby