Germany’s government coalition has still to decide policy toward cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.
The European Union is moving toward an opt-out policy in which individual countries will decide whether they approve GMO crop cultivation, Schmidt told the daily newspaper Tagesspiegel.
Longstanding differences between EU countries on GMO policy resurfaced in February when they failed to agree on whether to approve another GMO maize variety, Pioneer 1507, developed by DuPont and Dow Chemical, leaving the way open to the EU Commission to clear it for cultivation.
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