Biotech cultivation not a priority, says DG SANCO

摘要

Talks to allow EU countries to ban or restrict cultivation of approved biotechnology crops are unlikely to start again before the middle of next year, a conference heard last month. At the 7th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions conference, held at the European Parliament in Brussels, Eric Poudelet, spokesman for the European Commission's Health and Consumers Directorate General (DG SANCO). confirmed that the current Cypriot six-month presidency of the EU had decided that biotech cultivation was not a priority issue.