Brussels, Sept. 8thThe "Save our Seeds" initiative is pleased with todays decision of the European Commissions to withdraw from their agenda a proposal to allow for GM contamintion of conventional seeds of maize and oilseed-rape up to 0,3 percent. "This is an important victory for millions of European citizens and hundred of farmers, environmental, consumers organisations as well as a growing number of companies, who want gmo-free products and seeds and who fiercely opposed the planned contamination rules," said Benedikt Haerlin, spokesperson of the initiative. "The issue will come up again in the new Commission," he added, "and we hope the additional time now will be used by the new Commissioners to fully understand both the environmental and economic risks and threats stemming from uncotrolled and unlabelled seed contamination." In this respect Haerlin has special hopes on the new Commissioner for agriculture,, Else Mariann Fischer Boel, who has so far firmly defended a threshold at the detection level and introduced a submission to this end to the Council of Ministers only in April this year.