EU assembly delays GMO animal feed directive
Date: 17-Feb-00
Country: FRANCE
In a move designed to protest against the procedure being used to adopt
the legislation, the Parliament voted to refer it back to the assembly's
agriculture committees pending a settlement of the inter-institutional
dispute.
In a report, Green deputy Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf said
growing public concern over the use of GMOs in the food chain meant the
directly-elected assembly should have more say over the final shape of
the legislation.
At the moment, the Commission is proposing the new law be adopted by EU
farm ministers once the Parliament has merely given its opinion, whereas
the assembly wants joint-say over its content.