- Nineteen European Union member states have requested opt-outs for all or part of their territory from cultivation of a Monsanto (MON +1.2%) genetically modified crop which is authorized to be grown in the EU.
- The requests are for opt-outs from the approval of MON's maize MON 810, the only crop commercially cultivated in the EU.
- Under a law signed earlier this year, individual countries can seek exclusion from any approval request for GMO cultivation across the 28-nation EU.