NPG; EU wordt verwacht WTO dispuut te verliezen
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Speculatie:
De WTO zou gaan besluiten om de EU in het ongelijk te stellen in het WTO dispuut. Aldus Vandana Shiva, die de woorden van voormalig WTO-chef Supachai Panitchpakdi aldus interpreteert.
Bron: Dow Jones Newswire volgens McGuire Consulting.
[edit] EU Seen Losing WTO Biotech Food Case
- 11/30 09:05
- -Europe Charged with Illegally Blocking GM Products
- BRUSSELS (Dow Jones) -- The former head of the World Trade Organization expects the European Union to lose a multi-million dollar legal case over a ban on imports of genetically modified organisms, an Indian non-profit research foundation told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday.
- Supachai Panitchpakdi, who now heads the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, Monday told a meeting of Indian farmers and charity representatives in New Delhi that a legal case over GMO foods had been decided.
- "He said, 'I've been told I cannot name countries but there is a case at the WTO in which the country impeding the import of GMOs has lost the case'," said Vandana Shiva, founder of the New Delhi-based Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.
- "Given that we know who's been impeding, we can only interpret that Supachai is saying that Europe has lost the GMO case," Shiva said.
- Supachai's office at UNCTAD was unable to comment.
- The U.S., Canada and Argentina brought a case against the E.U. in May 2003, saying the bloc was illegally barring imports of new biotech food strands. A preliminary ruling is expected in early January.
- The WTO denied that a verdict on the case has been reached, much less that Supachai could know its contents.
- "There is no way that anyone at this stage knows what the outcome will be," said WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell.
- The international trade in genetically modified foods is a politically sensitive issue that trade negotiators have tried to avoid at global trade talks. Bringing up the case now risks casting an additional shadow over the drive for a global accord when trade ministers gather for crucial talks in Hong Kong in two weeks.
- The E.U. only ended a six-year moratorium on accepting applications for new genetically modified foods in May 2004 - after the Commission approved a product on behalf of the member states - but several E.U. nations remain reluctant to authorize these products.
- Doubts about the safety of biotech foods for consumers and the environment have led many Europeans to resist the introduction of such products. Germany and France, two of Europe's largest economies, for example, recently voted to uphold national bans on products they deem unsafe.
- Brussels fears such actions could weaken its case at the WTO. The WTO was due to issue a preliminary ruling in August, but it was forced to delay the report until early October because of the sheer volume of information involved.
- The E.U. faces millions of dollars in compensation payments if the WTO finds that it illegally held up imports of genetically modified foods between 1998 and 2004.
- Europe eased its rules in 2004 with strict new requirements on the labeling and traceability of genetically modified elements in food products.
- The U.S. has said it plans to take Europe to the WTO over the new laws too, saying that labeling requirements on any food product that contains more than 0.9 percent of genetically modified ingredients are a thinly disguised ruse to keep out U.S. imports.
- (SK)
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