The Spanish inter-ministerial biotechnology commission decided on July 13th to submit a favorable risk assessment for the cultivation of Monsanto`s NK 603 and to approve additional seed varieties of the already approved GMO Mon 810. "Something we have been encouraging the Government of Spain to do at each opportunitduring its first year of governance," writes an enthusiastic US embassy in Madrid.</p><p><a href="http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200507/146130292.pdf">USDA Foreign Agricultural Service: biotechnology developments in Spain</a></p><p><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=263071+20-Jul-2005+RTRS&srch=NK603">Reuters: Spains OKs Monsanto biotech corn</a>