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Article: Agricultural groups challenge EU biotech crop moratorium. (News).(coalition urges Bush Administration to file World Trade Organization complaint)
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- Chemical Market Reporter
- Article date:
- November 18, 2002
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A COALITION of 26 agricultural groups is urging the Bush administration to file a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against the European Union's (EU) continuing moratorium against new approvals of biotech crops.
"The EU's four-year moratorium has no scientific basis," says Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "EU officials have acknowledged this but were still unable to reach an agreement on a new approval process."
Unless the EU changes its recent biotech rules, the administration "has little choice but to file a complaint," states Mr. Stallman. The US "has been extremely patient" with the EU and "has done everything ...