The European Commission on Thursday failed to get a qualified majority of member states to approve Monsantos GM-maize NK 603, resistant to the companies pesticide "Roundup" in the Standing Committee on GMOs. Italy, Greece, Denmark, Luxembourg and Austria voted against it, Germany abstained. The approval would have been for food and feed use only. But Monsanto has filed already an application for cultivation as well. The proposal will now be forwarded to the Council of Environment Ministers.</p><p><a href="http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/46970-600?204&OIDN=1507222&-tt=bi">Authorisation of GM maize fails despite Commission efforts</a></p><p><a href="http://www.saveourseeds.org/downloads/com_draft_NK603.pdf">Draft Decision presented by the Commission</a></p><p><a href="http://gmoinfo.jrc.it/csnifs/C-ES-00-01.pdf">notification for NK 603 in food and feed</a></p><p><a href="http://gmoinfo.jrc.it/gmc_browse.asp">EU overview of all GMO applications</a></p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2004/02/18/rtr1265806.html">Forbes: Chronology of the EU moratorium</a>