FRANCE FINED EURO 10 MILLION OVER GM LAW FAILURES
January 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has been fined Euro 10 million by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement European Union (EU) legislation allowing the circulation of screened genetically modified food in its territory.
Judges agreed with the European Commission that Paris should be punished for failing to enact a 2002 directive on the release of GM organisms until 2008.
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THE FRENCH government has been fined Euro 10 million by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement European Union (EU) legislation allowing the circulation of screened genetically modified food in its territory.
Judges agreed with the European Commission that Paris should be punished for failing to enact a 2002 directive on the release of GM organisms until 2008.
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