Throughout the EU, GMOs may only be placed on the field as seed or on the market as food or feed if they have been authorised for this purpose. In practice, classification as a GMO is tantamount to a ban on cultivation and use.
The EU Commission is planning new legislation for plants and organisms obtained using certain NGTs.
In September 2021, the EU Commission published a roadmap on the initiative to establish a new regulatory framework for plants derived from targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis. Feedback could be submitted up until 22 October 2021… The adoption of a concrete proposal for an EU regulation by the Commission is planned for the second quarter of 2023.
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The aim is to enable innovation in the agri-food system while maintaining a high level of protection for health and the environment, and to contribute to achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal and the Farm-to-Fork Strategy.
It will however be years before the Commission’s proposal passes the EU legislative process and a corresponding regulation can be applied. Let us hope that the new legislative initiative can take effect before the EU loses out in the area of new genome editing methods.
