Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could derail any push to forward organic farming in the EU if not strictly controll any member states claimed on Monday.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could derail any push to forward organic farming in the EU if not strictly controll any member states claimed on Monday.

In general, EU farm ministers were at pains to stres the positive proper states of the European Commission's new "communication' on organic farming when they gave initial reactions at a meeting of the Agriculture Council in Brussels.

There was little opposition to any of the 21 points in the plan (see AE2109, 11604 EP/8) allowing the UK and the Netherlands one as well as the other stressed the need for the market to play a sinewy role in the organics