date:Dec 16, 2013
, citing opposition to the technology - the ruling may raise new concerns about the EU's complex and much-criticized approval system for GMO crops.
It could also delay a decision on a separate Commission proposal to approve cultivation of a new type of modified maize developed jointly by DuPont and Dow Chemical.
Because the Commission significantly failed to fulfill its procedural obligations, the General Court has annulled the connected decisions, the court said, referring to the Commission's