HC Deb 23 July 1999 vol 335 cc707-8W
Joan Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what policy the UK Government are adopting with respect to the revision of EC Directive 90/220/EEC on the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment; and if he will make a statement. [88723]

Mr. Meacher

The Government strongly support the revision of Council Directive 90/220/EEC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on which political agreement was reached at the recent EU Environment Council. Details of the political agreement are given in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Clydesdale (Mr. Hood) on 6 July 1999,Official Report, columns 438–40.