Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Genetically Modified Organism" produced 174 items.
| 1. Court rulings re-ignite debate on GM crops | September 15, 2011 |
|
|
ECJ rules on two cases involving GM maize, and both sides say decisions work in their favour. The biotechnology industry and campaigners against genetic modification have... |
 |
|
|
| 2. Growing GM crops ‘could pose a threat to public order' | February 3, 2011 |
|
|
Commission prepares list for banning GM crops. Public morals, public order and “historical heritage” might be under threat from genetically modified crops, according to... |
 |
|
|
| 3. Commission to specify permitted reasons for banning GM crops | December 20, 2010 |
|
|
|
The European Commission is to draw up a list of permissible reasons that national governments can cite to ban the growing of genetically-modified crops from its territory,... | |
| 4. Ministers to give another snub to Commission's GM proposal | December 16, 2010 |
|
|
National governments say proposal is too vague; Commission approach poses legal challenges Plans to give national governments more freedom of choice over the planting of... |
 |
|
|
| 5. GM proposal could face legal challenge | November 25, 2010 |
|
|
|
Parliament's lawyers concerned about plans, but Commission wants states to make own GM decisions New doubts have emerged about European Commission plans to let member states... | |
| 6. No one is a winner with Commission's GM plan | July 29, 2010 |
|
|
The Commission needs to do more to convince the public that genetically modified crops are safe. |
 |
|
|
| 7. Genetically muddled union | July 15, 2010 |
|
|
|
The Commission's GM headaches will not go away soon. The European Union's policy on genetically modified (GM) organisms has long been an embarrassment. The question of... | |
| 8. Dalli gives up on single GM policy | July 15, 2010 |
|
|
Plans give states greater freedom to grow or ban but biotech firms and anti-GM groups are unhappy. National governments will have more freedom to choose whether to grow or... |
 |
|
|
| 9. Genetically muddled union | July 15, 2010 |
|
|
|
The Commission's GM headaches will not go away soon. The European Union's policy on genetically modified (GM) organisms has long been an embarrassment. The question of... | |
| 10. Commission seeks to give countries greater freedom over GM | July 13, 2010 |
|
|
Proposals could make it easier to approve more GM varieties. National governments will have more freedom to choose whether or not to allow genetically modified (GM) crops to... |
 |
|
|
| 11. Barroso's empty GM deal | July 8, 2010 |
|
|
The European Commission's offer to allow national bans on genetically modified crops is hollow and could be easily overturned in court. The thought of eating genetically... |
 |
|
|
| 12. Bland and simple | July 1, 2010 |
|
|
|
A tasty treat from GM farmers. ‘Taste without prejudice' was the tag-line on an invitation from the Farmers Biotech Network to a “food-tasting event” of genetically... | |
| 13. A bright new future for agriculture? (I) | March 11, 2010 |
|
|
The European Commission has just approved a genetically modified crop for cultivation in the EU, its first such decision in 12 years. Magda Stoczkiewicz says the decision... |
 |
|
|
| 14. A bright new future for agriculture? (II) | March 11, 2010 |
|
|
The European Commission has just approved a genetically modified crop for cultivation in the EU, its first such decision in 12 years. Magda Stoczkiewicz says the decision... |
 |
|
|
| 15. Commission approves GM potato variety | March 2, 2010 |
|
|
Amflora approved for use in starch production for the paper industry. The European Commission today announced that it had approved a genetically modified potato variety,... |
 |
|
|
| 16. A method to its madness | February 4, 2010 |
|
|
The European Commission's approval of some genetically modified foods has angered many, but should be seen as part of a broader effort to manage the pressures from member... |
 |
|
|
| 17. France fined over GM law | December 9, 2008 |
|
|
|
Six-year delay in France's adoption of controversial rules on genetically modified crops lands it a €10 million fine from the EU's top court.
The European Court of... | |
| 18. Drop in genetically modified crops grown in EU | September 30, 2008 |
|
|
|
Decline is due to French ban; elsewhere there were large increases in the one type of GM crop allowed in the EU.
The area of European farmland sown with genetically... | |
| 19. Commission study finds no harm from GM food | September 4, 2008 |
|
|
|
Report set to counter positions of those who commissioned it. There is no evidence that genetically modified foods have harmful effects on public health, according to an... | |
| 20. EU prepares to deal with lab-bred foods | July 3, 2008 |
|
|
|
Zoë Casey reports on the fears about food from cloned animals. The prospect of products derived from cloned animals hitting European markets as early as 2010 is... | |
