Press Release: Environment Committee backs flexibility for EU countries to ban GMO crops

The European Parliament's Environment Committee approved on 11 November 2014 the plans to allow EU member-states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms on their own territory even if it is allowed at EU level.

MEPs voted to remove the Council-backed idea of a phase of negotiations with the GMO company, and supported plans to allow member states to ban GMO crops on environmental grounds.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Council adopts its position on the cultivation of genetically modified organisms http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-council-adopts-its-position-on-the-cultivation-of-genetically-modified-organisms/

ESO: Background information: GMO cultivation in Europe: A decade of legal battles http://www.europeansources.info/record/gmo-cultivation-in-europe-a-decade-of-legal-battles/

EurActiv, 12.11.14: EU one step closer to law on national GMO crop bans http://www.euractiv.com/sections/agriculture-food/eu-one-step-closer-law-national-gmo-crop-bans-309927

EUObserver, 11.11.14: MEPs allow national bans on GM crops http://euobserver.com/environment/126467

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