Environment ministers have managed to break the deadlock over a four-year old proposal to allow individual member states to ban cultivation on their territories of EU-authorised genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The 3 March Environment Council saw a blocking minority lifted on the 2010 proposal to amend the EU's deliberate release directive (2001/18/EC), although a deal is not in the bag yet. The Council only saw a majority of member states agree that it was worth negotiating on a compromise proposal put forward by the current Greek presidency, which is largely based on a text drawn up during the 2012 Danish presidency, which had come close to agreement.
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