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    Patents on plants and animals

    The hearing will deal with patents on conventional breeding of plants and animals and their consequences for the agricultural sector and the food production. How to interpret the EU Biotech Patents Directive 98/44/EC ? Is there a need to change the law? The point of view of stakeholders.
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    Gates Foundation

    Bill Gates addressed the Development committee of the European Parliament last week and received a warm welcome from the MEPs present. The questions that followed his address were light and easy with one exception: Green MEP Catherine Grèze challenged Mr. Gates on the funding of his foundation, a...
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    EU food aid scheme

    The European Parliament agriculture committee today approved a compromise solution on a scheme under the CAP, which provides food aid to the most vulnerable persons in the EU. The compromise follows the lines of a Green proposal made last year and would see the scheme continued until 2013 (arou...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Priorities for the Greens/EFA group for the plenary session included the Euro crisis summit, the debate on Iran and its nuclear programme and the misleading health claims in food
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    Food claims

    The European Parliament voted to reject a proposal from the EU Commission to allow misleading nutritional claims for food products. The Greens welcomed the rejection of the proposals, which would have allowed producers to claim reduced percentages of potentially unhealthy components
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    Food claims

    The European Parliament's environment committee today voted to reject (1) a proposal from the EU Commission to allow misleading nutritional claims on food products. The Greens welcomed the rejection of the proposals, which would allow producers to claim reduced percentages of potentially unhealthy c...
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    GMO (In)Digest

    Download the newsletter here (pdf) EU Work Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH) At the 12th January meeting of the SCFCAH, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) presented its opinion on 2 genetically modified maize for cultivation, MON88017 from Monsanto and GA21 from...
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    EU-Morocco trade agreement/Western Sahara

    The European Parliament's trade committee today voted to recommend the EP give its consent to the inclusion of a new protocol on agriculture and fisheries in the EU-Morocco trade agreement. The Greens are opposed to the agreement - both because of concerns about the impact of free trade on small pro...
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    e-fa: News Round-Up January 2012

    January 2012 Round-Up The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe. European Free Alliance MEPs sit in a European parliamentary group with the Greens, making up the fourth largest group...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the first session of 2012 included the debates on the economic crisis and treaty response, the political situation in Hungary and the initiation of an infringement procedure under Art.7 as well as the reports on waste electrical equipment, biocides and food wastage