GMO

Despite U.S. Criticism, E.U. Unrepentant on GM Food Rules

Deutsche Presse Agentur | July 22, 2003 European Union policymakers are unrepentant: the bloc's recently-approved rules on the strict labelling of genetically modified (GM) food and crops will go into effect next year, they say, regardless of what America thinks.

US and Europe on Brink of Trade War

The Guardian (London)| By Andrew Osborn in Brussels and Larry Elliott | July 12, 2003 The European Union and the United States were teetering on the brink of a transatlantic trade war last night after Brussels threatened a Dollars 2.2bn package of sanctions unless Washington scrapped steel tariffs ruled illegal by the World Trade Organisation yesterday.

Jailed French Militant Farmer Will Have Sentence Shortened In Bastille Day Clemency

Associated Press | July 10, 2003 PARIS (AP) - French militant farmer Jose Bove's jail sentence will be reduced by four months in this year's traditional Bastille Day clemency, the government said Thursday. Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald's restaurant under construction in 1999, was jailed last month to serve 10 months for destroying genetically modified crops.

US Says EU Must Show More Farm Trade Movement

Reuters | By Doug Palmer | July 9, 2003 The United States pressured the European Union on Wednesday to show more flexibility in farm trade talks even if it does not offer new proposals.

Lamy Warns US it will Lose if it Seeks WTO Ruling on Biotech Labelling

Agence France Presse | July 8, 2003 The European Union's top trade representative warned the United States Tuesday it would fail if it went to the World Trade Organization to challenge recent EU legislation requiring genetically modified food to carry labels.

EU Adopts New Rules on Biotech Foods, U.S. Unimpressed

Agence France Presse | By Michael Thurston | July 2, 2003 European lawmakers adopted Wednesday new rules on the labelling of genetically-modified foodstuffs, saying they hoped it would ease a fierce row with the US, but Washington remained unimpressed.

EU Officials Urge Biotech Food Changes

Associated Press | July 1, 2003 BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union officials urged lawmakers Tuesday to approve regulations on genetically modified foods that could end an EU ban on new biotech products, but keep labels that the United States says could make the foods impossible to sell.

EU Blasts US "Lectures" over GMOs and Africa

Agence France Presse | July 1, 2003 The head of the European Parliament Tuesday angrily rejected US "lectures" about genetically modified organisms as deputies debated new laws that would allow an EU ban on GMOs to be lifted.

EU Environment Commissioner Says Bush GMO Comments "Nonsense"

BBC Monitoring International Reports | June 30, 2003

UN Commission to Set New Safety, Trade Standards on Food Security

Agence France Press | June 26, 2003 Experts from around the globe are to gather under UN auspices next week to adopt new standards in food safety, with biotechnology, intensive farming and refinement becoming major public health issues, the UN's food and agriculture agency said.