The State Council today rescinded the ban on Monsanto’s MON810 GM maize at the request of corn farmers, but this measure will have no effect provide the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment that highlight a new European regulation.
According to the two firms, a European directive dating from 2015, transposed into french law in November, allows each member State to prohibit GMO crops on its soil, even when they are validated by the European Food food safety (EFSA). The Council of State ruled Friday on an earlier arrested in this transposition and dated March 2014. Citing the risks of insect resistance, the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, was then banned the marketing, the use and cultivation of the variety genetically modified to resist insect pests corn.
In its ruling Friday, the Council of State found that the conditions imposed by EU legislation before the directive of 2015, were not met and that the ministry did not bring “new elements based on data scientists reliable “.
Since 2009, France has tried to impose a moratorium on GM crops on its soil. After triggering the safeguard clause in 2008, invalidated three years later, Paris had issued orders banning GMO maize cultivation twice in 2011 and 2013. The French Parliament transposed into law the European directive dated early 2015 which allows Member States to ban the cultivation if they wish. Refractory can to invoke this socio-economic reasons, environmental or related to the use of agricultural land.
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