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Published on 1 July 2009

GMO-free agriculture: Federal Council in favour of extending moratorium

Bern, 1.7.2009 - The Federal Council would like to extend the moratorium "for GMO-free agriculture", which is due to run out on 27 November 2010, by three years. In its session of 1 July 2009, it passed the dispatch on an amendment to the Gene Technology Act to the Parliament. This should win time which can be used to develop scientific principles.