Poland may approve gene crop ban despite EU
Date: 1.5.2006
Poland's upper house of parliament may ban trade and plantings of genetically modified (GMO) seeds on Thursday and put Warsaw on a collision course with Brussels for endorsing a law that breaks EU rules.
The chairman of the Senate's agriculture committee said he expected senators from the ruling conservative Law and Justice party and several fringe groups to support the draft law, which has already been approved by the lower house of parliament.
"Senators from Law and Justice will back the bill and I have not heard any objections from several other parties, so it should pass," Jerzy Chroscikowski told Reuters.
The legislation would still have to get final approval from lower house deputies after the Senate vote. It also has to be signed by the president to become law.
Poland's plans for what is effectively a national GMO ban have drawn criticism from the European Commission, the EU executive, for threatening to break EU laws, especially those that aim to preserve the bloc's single internal market.
"Source":[ http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=news&doc_id=12624&start=1&control=139&page_start=1&page_nr=101&pg=1].
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