OXFORD, U.K.--With a little push from German chancellor Helmut Kohl and other political heavyweights, Europe's biotechnology regulations are starting to make sense, despite the inertia that still haunts some parts of the European Commission (EC, Brussels). It is now very likely that the long-promised amendment of the European Union's (EU, Brussels) directive on the contained use of genetically modified organisms, 90/219/EEC, will materialize With revisions to "219" all but delivered, industry is nowlooking to get 90/220/EEC, the directive that covers the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms into environment, in its sights.
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