EU environment ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (14 March) will discuss a list of possible reasons why individual member states could opt to ban the cultivation of genetically-modified crops in future.
"Public morals", "public order" and "cultural policy" are among the options listed in a European Commission working document, seen by this website.
The paper builds on a commission proposal last July to partially renationalise decisions over GMO cultivation, after years of ...
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