BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU ministers and national experts are due to approve a genetically modified (GMO) sugar beet variety this month despite a long running dispute over the use of biotechnology.
Officials say around 10 GMO products, mostly maize types but also cotton, soybeans and a high-starch potato, are scheduled for discussion at various levels of the EU in the next few months.
Although the bloc's member governments clash consistently over GMOs, never reaching the required majority under its weighted voting system to authorize new biotech products, that deadlock doesn't stop authorizations being granted.