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EU environment ministers have failed to agree to force Austria to lift a national ban on GMOs, highlighting deep divisions among the 27-member bloc over the issue.
Ahead of a meeting of EU environment ministers, European bioindustries and farmers urged member states to accept opening the EU market to more GM products. With a spectacular increase of 77% (in just one year) of GM-cultivated hectares in Europe, prospects for further growth in the sector are hampered by EU states' persistent reluctance to allow more transgenic crops onto the market.
The EU's Life Sciences and Biotech Strategy aims to make the European biotech sector more competitive and to foster research in the areas of health care, agriculture, manufacturing and the environment. (read more)
The 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (6th FP) is the EU's main instrument for funding research in Europe. (read more)
In response to public fears about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food, the European Union adopted in July 2003 two regulations establishing an EU-wide system to trace and label GMOs and to regulate the commercialisation and labelling of food derived from GMOs. (read more)
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