516 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the idea of enabling the European Food Safety Authority to consider the long-term health and environmental implications of the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment as part of every licensing application for GMOs; his further views on the fact that none of the GMOs currently approved for production in the EU have been positively approved by the EU Council of Ministers; the reason he does not support a moratorium on all future GM approvals in the EU pending the determination of possible scenarios that might arise from the perceived laxness in the GMO approval system; and his further views on proposals to amend the comotology procedure in order that such approvals in future will have to be made by the EU Council of Ministers. [18872/06]

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516 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the idea of enabling the European Food Safety Authority to consider the long-term health and environmental implications of the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment as part of every licensing application for GMOs; his further views on the fact that none of the GMOs currently approved for production in the EU have been positively approved by the EU Council of Ministers; the reason he does not support a moratorium on all future GM approvals in the EU pending the determination of possible scenarios that might arise from the perceived laxness in the GMO approval system; and his further views on proposals to amend the comotology procedure in order that such approvals in future will have to be made by the EU Council of Ministers. [18872/06]

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