In a joint vote, on 17 June, the European Parliament’s Committees on the Environment (ENVI) and Agriculture (AGRI) will try to extend the ban proposed by the European Commission on the cloning of animals for farming purposes to the offspring, descendants and germinal products (semen, oocytes and embryos).
The joint draft report by Renate Sommer (EPP, Germany) from ENVI and Giulia Moi (GUE, Italy) form AGRI also proposes to extend the scope of the application of the ban to “all…