With the final vote on the Regulation on gm Food and Feed coming up on July 2nd in the European Parliament, intensive negotiations between the political groups and the different EU institutions are presently under way. The Parliaments EPP group (christian democrats) is blocking any substantial progress on those contentious issues, which the Parliaments majority has insisted on: Lower thresholds, member states full participation on approvals for GMO releases and insurance of proper co-existence measures between GMO and non GMO farming. The group is the biggest in the Parliament and could prevent the necessary absolute majority needed for adoption of these amendments, if their pro-GMO hardliners succeed and are backed by all EPP members.</p><p><a href="http://www.zs-l.de/gmo/news/ff_preconciliation_130603.pdf">report on the present negotiations in the Parliament</a></p><p><a href="http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A5-2003-0202+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&L=EN&LEVEL=1&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y#TOP">List of amendments this report refers to</a></p><p><a href="http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/oeil/oeil_ViewDNL.ProcViewCTX?lang=2&procid=5457&HighlighType=2&Highlight_Text=modified">All legislative acts regarding the Food and Feed Regulation</a>