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EU support for Austrian GM bans falters

ENDS Europe
Tuesday 30 October 2007

The European commission has failed again to win ministerial backing for a legal order requiring Austria to overturn national bans on two EU-approved genetically modified maize varieties. But in a new turn at Tuesday's environment council in Luxembourg, ministers also failed to explicitly reject the order, opening the way for the commission to adopt it unilaterally as EU policy.

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Danish presidency programme

The Danish government presents the programme of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union ‘Europe at work'

Denmark took over the presidency of the EU on 1 January.

Read ENDS article on its provisional agenda of meetings

See also its website and full programme of work officially presented on 6 January