date:Jul 30, 2018
seed varieties which are resistant to selective herbicides.
Confdration Paysanne, a French agricultural union which defends the interests of small-scale farming, together with eight other associations, brought an action before the Conseil dtat (Council of State, France) in order to contest the French legislation which exempts organisms obtained by mutagenesis from the obligations imposed by the directive on GMOs.
In particular, that directive provides that GMOs must be authorized following an