CYPRUS GM FOOD SUPERMARKET SEPARATION
March 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
Cyprus has been told by the European Commission it will be barred from displaying GM food separately from non-GM food in supermarkets. Cyprus informed Brussels last September that under Article 95(5) of the EU Treaty, allowing divergence from EU harmonisation measures under certain conditions, they would force supermarkets to place GM foods on separate, designated shelves.
The Commission has now blocked the plan on legal grounds, saying the necessary conditions have not been met. It said this did not prejudge the questions of whether the proposal ...
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