EU citizens seek to freeze GM crop cultivation

MORE than one million signatures have been gathered in a legal bid to “freeze” genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation in the EU.

EU citizens seek to freeze GM crop cultivation

Environmental campaigners hope the response to an online petition can clear the way for a new citizen charter on GM created under the Lisbon Treaty.

If a million citizens from a broad base of EU countries lend their names to moves to change the law, the European Commission is obliged to consider the grievance.

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