The German Supreme Court upholds law restrictive GM crop (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – the German Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld two-year-old strong restrictions on the placing on the market in accordance with the law of the environment of genetically modified plants use, saying, it protected the public against the dangers of technology. The Federal Constitutional Court, said the 2008 law require that the buffer zones between THE GM and non-hazardous plants was justified on the basis of the "contamination" and other plants, bulbs, roots and the open questions-of-the-art technology. "Legislation branch carries out operations in accordance with the objectives and the legitimate public welfare should be given a generous space to take in order to realise these objectives, the regulation laying down certain technical measures for the status of the social and scientific discussion on a broad range of genetic engineering research of failure to use background," the Court said. The law provides for the 150-m-very (490-feet-level) "prote...