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>From Environment News Service
> EU Pressures France for Refusal to Market Biotech Crops
>
> BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 7, 1999 (ENS) - The European Commission
> is pushing ahead with legal action against France for failing to
> authorise genetically modified organisms (GMOs) which have been
> given the political green light at EU level - despite the
> European Union's current de facto ban on new GMO permits.
>
> The Commission announced Tuesday that it planned to send Paris a
> reasoned opinion (final warning) over its refusal to give written
> consent for the placing on the market of two varieties of
> genetically modified oilseed rape, also known as canola. The
> first warning went out last October after France had imposed a
> two-year moratorium on the crops, which it fears might
> cross-breed with wild varieties to create "super weeds."
>
> Since then, late last month, a majority of European Union (EU)
> states, meeting in the EU Council of Ministers in Luxembourg,
> signed up to one of two unofficial agreements to postpone any
> further EU authorisations of genetically modified organisms until
> the current directive has been revised with clearer and stricter
> procedures.
>
> But Commission spokesman Peter Jørgensen, who announced the
> latest infringement cases, said there was no contradiction in
> pursuing the case against France. Acknowledging that there had
> been a "clear message from Luxembourg" that there would be no new
> authorisations in the near future, Jørgensen said that this did
> not allow countries to go against approvals that had already been
> agreed. "Once the Community decision has been taken, member
> states must act," he said.
>
> Although consent for marketing the two genetically modified
> organisms was agreed at EU level in 1997, they cannot be
> officially authorised in the EU before getting written
> authorisation from France, the country which requested EU
> approval for the products in the first place.
>
> The Commission also announced today that it would send a second
> reasoned opinion to France over its failure to respond to a
> number of other requests for GMO authorisation. Under the current
> law, a member state has 90 days after receiving a request to
> either write back explaining to the company why authorisation
> would not be granted, or to write to the Commission recommending
> the genetically modified organism for EU approval.
>
> In a related development, the Commission announced that it would
> apply to the European Court of Justice against Luxembourg over
> its failure to transpose a technical adaptation to the GMO
> deliberate release directive. Although Luxembourg has sent its
> draft legislation to Brussels, it has not included a firm
> timetable for its adoption, according to the Commission.
>
> The deadline for transposition was the end of July last year. As
> the European Court of Justice has already found against
> Luxembourg on this matter (Case C-339/97 of July 16, 1998), the
> Commission is now pursuing action that could ultimately lead to a
> fine.
>
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> {Published in cooperation with ENDS Environment Daily, Europe's
> choice for environmental news. Environmental Data Services Ltd,
> London. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]}
>
>
>
> © Environment News Service (ENS) 1999. All Rights Reserved.
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