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The WTO Panel on the EC-Biotech Dispute Releases Its Final Report
On September 29, 2006, the World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on the EC-Biotech dispute finally issued its official report, three years after the panel had been established. On August 7, 2003 three exporters of agricultural and food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), i.e., the United States (WT/DS291), Canada (WT/DS292), and Argentina (WT/DS293), filed complaints under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism against the EC?s alleged moratorium on the approval of GMOs during the period of October 1998 to August 2003, as well as against some of the EC Member states? national ban on GMOs and GM foods. On February 8, 2006, the panel issued an interim report in which it produced two main findings.