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EU assembly delays GMO animal feed directive |
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| FRANCE: February 17, 2000 | ||
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STRASBOURG - The European Parliament yesterday refused to endorse European Union legislation on the authorisation of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and other additives in animal feed.
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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.
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