270 Deputy Eamon Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason, at the 2812th Environment Council meeting of 28 June 2007 in Luxembourg, he failed to vote alongside the Belgian, Greek, Hungarian, and Italian delegations against the draft regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products, which did not take up the European Parliament’s amendment No.171 of 22 May 2007, to Article 17(3) of the Commission’s original proposal, which sought to prevent products from being labelled organic if they contained genetically modified organisms, unless they had been contaminated accidentally and even then only up to a threshold of 0.1%, compared to a 0.9% threshold in the Commission’s original proposal. [19396/07]

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270 Deputy Eamon Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason, at the 2812th Environment Council meeting of 28 June 2007 in Luxembourg, he failed to vote alongside the Belgian, Greek, Hungarian, and Italian delegations against the draft regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products, which did not take up the European Parliament’s amendment No.171 of 22 May 2007, to Article 17(3) of the Commission’s original proposal, which sought to prevent products from being labelled organic if they contained genetically modified organisms, unless they had been contaminated accidentally and even then only up to a threshold of 0.1%, compared to a 0.9% threshold in the Commission’s original proposal. [19396/07]

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