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Poland defies EU with GMO ban.(European Union, genetically modified crops)(Brief article)
May 19, 2006... Poland has signed into law a total ban on the growing and sale of genetically modified (GM) organisms, in a move likely to infuriate the European Commission.
Since the recent World Trade Organisation ruling that the EU had broken international trade laws by refusing to approve GMOs...
Lamy encouraged by Doha progress.(Pascal Lamy)
May 19, 2006... Progress is being made in the Doha Round, and discussions are on track to achieve agreement on the final numbers and formulae (the so-called 'modalities') by the end of July, if WTO members put in the hard work required, WTO chief Pascal Lamy declared this week.
He told the WTO General...
EU farm ministers set to clash over organic limits.(European Union)
May 19, 2006... The long-standing question of GM tolerance thresholds for organic farm products in Europe looks set to rear its head again next week, as EU agriculture ministers meet in Brussels on Monday to debate rules for organic production.
Farm ministers are expected to clash over the European...
Milk quota reserves allocated to NMS.(New Member States)
May 19, 2006... The milk quotas of the eight new member states from Central and Eastern Europe have been increased as from the current 2006/07 quota year, under a decision agreed late last week.
The Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia will all be allowed...
EU offers conditional 2007 entry to Romania & Bulgaria.(European Union. European Commission)
May 19, 2006... The European Commission this week paved the way for an EU of 27 member states as from the start of next year, by allowing Romania and Bulgaria to join the EU on January 1 2007.
But the invitation was heavily conditional on the two countries continuing to step up their fight against...