EU advisory panel calls mandatory biotech coexistence rules essential

摘要

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack isn't the only one seeking a mechanism to better manage the coexistence of biotech, conventional and organic crops. An advisory panel in Europe insists that the European Union needs legally binding rules to settle such matters.Coexistence should include a stringent segregation policy and liability rules for compensation in cases of unintentional commingling, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) says in a newly released opinion on biotech crops in the EU, adopted by the committee in January, according to our sister publication Agrow.