Austria To Hold Pan-EU GM Debate

Avatar for Matt Hopkins By Scott C. Lucas|21 February 2006

Austria one of the leading anti-GMO Member States of the EU. In January, Austria will take over the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, and Agricultural Minister Josef Proell announced plans to host a conference on biotech crops on April 4-5, 2006 to open a debate on an issue that Proell said was “very sensitive” to Europeans. Minister Proell also announced that Austria would use the time of its presidency to influence the biotech debate.