The European Union has approved Friday, April 24 the import and marketing of GMOs 19, two days after proposing to Member States a reform allowing them to prohibit their use on their territory.
Eleven products of the American multinational Monsanto are among authorized GMOs, said the European Commission in a statement.
The other nine are products of the US firm Dupont and German groups Bayer and BASF.
Seventeen of these GMOs are intended for food and feed, two are cut flowers.
These authorizations “were on hold” because the Member States are not able to form a majority for or against commercialization. Permission is immediate and goes for ten years.
If European governments approve the reform presented Wednesday, they will ban the use of GMOs on their territory.
In the case otherwise, the rules will be those that have led the European Commission to authorize the marketing of GMOs are safe for animal and human health across the EU, solution demanded by large groups.
Greenpeace accused the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, “not intend to bring Europe closer to the citizens, as he has promised, and acting for the interests of States UNite and Monsanto. “
(With AFP)
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