GM food: The next major transatlantic trade war?

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 287-316

  Krenzler, Horst G ^a   Macgregor, Anne ^b  

^a Shearman and Sterling ^*  (Belgium)

^b Shearman and Sterling LLP   (United States)

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EID: 85011498708     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009871729881     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. The Times, 12 August 1999, p. 34. The volume of the entire world food trade is estimated at USD 300-400 billion per annum.
2. Article 2(1) of Directive 90/220 defines GMO as 'an organism in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination'.
3. The principle was introduced to the EC Treaty as a result of the Maastricht Treaty; the Amsterdam changes are immaterial for our purposes.