EU parliamentarians and regional ministers are keeping up the compressing on the European Commission to take a firmer line through the whole extent of the 'co-existence' of genetically modified (GM) and non-GM craws This week's meeting of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee brought a lively discussion which saw MEP and visitor speakers line up to criticise the Commission for leaving EU member states and regions with too a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of legal uncertainty over the co-existence issue.

EU parliamentarians and regional ministers are keeping up the compressing on the European Commission to take a firmer line through the whole extent of the 'co-existence' of genetically modified (GM) and non-GM craws

This week's meeting of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee brought a lively discussion which saw MEP and visitor speakers line up to criticise the Commission for leaving EU member states and regions with too a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of legal uncertainty over the co-existence issue.

"This discussion isn't about ideology if it were not that about practice and economics," complained Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, the committee's vice-chairman.

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