The Commission should be welcomed for acknowledging a problem with their food safety authority, but it needs to go further.

The WTO has bluntly ruled that European safeguards should be sacrificed to benefit biotech corporations.

The WTO has bluntly ruled that European safeguards (bans) should be sacrificed to benefit biotech corporations. This will backfire and lead to even greater opposition to genetically modified food and crops. Consumers worldwide will not be bullied into eating GM foods.

Documentation is the big issue, the key thing to trigger the whole protocol, for whether it works or not - and whether countries have the right to know what's being imported.

We welcome the Commission acknowledging there is a problem. Europe's food safety net is clearly not working and so the approvals of new genetically modified foods should be halted until the public is fully protected.

Opposition to genetically modified foods is likely to increase if the WTO decides that European safeguards should be sacrificed to benefit biotech corporations. The WTO, the US administration and biotech firms should stop their bullying and let Europeans decide what food we eat.