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The European Commission has announced plans to present a new legal framework for the authorization of GMO imports into the EU by the end of April 2015.
European UnionFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences
The European Commission has announced plans to
present a new legal framework for the authorization of GMO imports
into the EU by the end of April 2015. The new legislation is
expected to follow the approach that was adopted for cultivation of
GMOs and allow EU Member States to prohibit, within their
territory, marketing of products that contain EU-authorized GMOs or
that are derived from those GMOs.
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