[diggers350] EU cave in over GM crops at Seattle

[Paul Mobbs]

>Hi,
>I just got very bad news!
>There seems to be a leaked document from the EU, Japan, Korea,
>Hungary, Turkey and Switzerland, which contains some bad surprises.
>
>I was told that you can read the document in about an hour from now
>on the webpage of Friends of the Earth International at
><http://www.antenna.nl/~foei/campaigns/indexwto.html>
>
>- From the content:
>1) EU plans a WTO working group on BIOTECHNOLOGY!!
>(Strategy????: getting LDCs on board via extension for TRIPS
>implementation + getting US on board ????)
>2) Broad regulations on market access will include forest products.
>In short: FREE LOGGING AGREEMENT
>3) The EU convinced the other signing countries that INVESTMENT has
>to included
>
>I just want to restress that the EU claimed that the environment
>would be an essential component of the EU position in Seattle. 
>
>Burghard

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