Vote on novel foods likely to be postponed

The rapporteur intends to ask for an extended deadline in view of the rifts within the S&D and EPP groups

Édition Pouvoirs
Sophie Petitjean
24 juin 2015 à 17h17
MEP and rapporteur James Nicholson (ECR, UK) — EP

Will the compromise on the draft regulation relating to novel foods, proudly announced by the Council on 10 June, convince MEPs? Nothing could be less certain. Faced with the discussions underway in certain groups, rapporteur James Nicholson (ECR, UK) indicated, on 24 June, that he would request a postponement of the vote, which is supposed to take place the following day in the Committee on the Environment and Public Health. “I think that a postponement will give all groups more…

Parallel talks

On 17 June, the European Parliament’s AGRI and ENVI committees declared they were largely in favour (92 votes for, nine against and nine abstentions) of suspending the use of cloning techniques in EU food production, along with an embargo on imports of cloned animals, germinal products and foods derived from cloned animals and their descendants.
par Sophie Petitjean

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