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The Commission infringed the procedural rules of the systems for authorising GMOs in the European Union

Judgment in Case T-240/10: Hungary v Commission
The General Court has annulled the Commission’s decisions concerning authorisation to place on the market the genetically modified potato Amflora. The Commission infringed the procedural rules of the systems for authorising GMOs in the European Union. In the territory of the European Union, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be released into the environment or placed on the market only if consent has been given, subject to specific conditions and granted with a view to specified uses, after a scientific assessment of the risks.

• General Court of the European Union PRESS RELEASE No 160/13 Luxembourg, 13 December 2013
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