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Viewing cable 07PARIS2617, GOF WILL NOT BAN MON 810 BIOTECH CORN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07PARIS2617 2007-06-18 16:48 2011-08-24 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Paris 
VZCZCXRO8563
RR RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHIK RUEHLZ RUEHROV
DE RUEHFR #2617 1691648
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 181648Z JUN 07
FM AMEMBASSY PARIS
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8318
RUEHRC/USDA FAS WASHDC
INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES
RUEHMRE/AMCONSUL MARSEILLE 1794
RUEHSR/AMCONSUL STRASBOURG 0437
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 2688
RHEHAAA/WHITE HOUSE WASHDC
 
UNCLAS PARIS 002617 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
BRUSSELS PASS USEU FOR AGMINCOUNSELOR 
STATE FOR EUR/ERA, EUR/WE, EUR/PPD, IIP AND ECA; 
EEB/TPP/ABT(SPIRNAK); 
STATE PASS USTR FOR MURPHY; 
USDA/OS/JOHANNS/TERPSTRA; 
USDA/FAS FOR OA/YOST; 
OCRA/CURTIS 
STA/SIMMONS/JONES/HENNEY 
FAA/YOUNG; 
EU POSTS PASS TO AGRICULTURE AND ECON 
GENEVA FOR USTR, ALSO AGRICULTURE 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAGR ETRD EU FR
SUBJECT: GOF WILL NOT BAN MON 810 BIOTECH CORN 
 
 
1. (U) On June 14, the French Biomolecular Committee (the competent 
authority for reviewing biotech products) stated that in much as 
there was no new adverse information calling into question the 
environmental assessment of MON 810, the French Ministers of Ecology 
and Agriculture found that no moratorium will be imposed on the 
cultivation and harvest of MON 810 corn this year. 
 
2.  (SBU) French anti-biotech organizations had called for a 
moratorium on all the MON 810 corn planted this year in France on 
some 25,000 hectares.  We understand that the Prime Minister's 
office intervened to mediate between the Ministries of Agriculture 
and Ecology.  It is interesting to note that this outcome stands in 
opposition to German, Austrian and Hungarian decisions to apply 
moratoriums on MON 810. 
 
STAPLETON