Arthur Neslen
Top EU farm officials back gene editing, call for efforts to assuage concern about ‘unintended impacts’
The European Commission’s top agriculture civil servant said [October 1] he supports controversial gene-editing technologies, but called for more “assurances” ...
EU environmental groups say proposed pesticide rules would ‘water down’ protection for pollinators
EU countries .... expressed their preference for a way of regulating potentially bee-harming pesticides that has been contested by environmental ...
Europe considers accelerated GMO import approval process to facilitate mini US trade deal
Brussels is ready to offer to speed up the approval process for genetically modified organisms imported into the EU, as ...
EU review of strict CRISPR crop rules dominated by biotech industry, anti-GMO groups allege
The EU is launching a consultation as part of an info-gathering exercise for a Commission study on “the status of ...
Leaked proposals suggest EU may assess CRISPR gene editing to ‘improve sustainability’ of food production
More leaked drafts of the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy reveal how the [European] Commission’s plan to make EU food ...
EU Green Party aims to halve synthetic pesticide use by 2025, phase it out completely in 15 years
The EU’s European Green Deal drafters may have succeeded in dodging some of the most immediately contentious issues in the ...
Soybean designed to grow on exhausted pasture land could help protect Amazon rainforest
The agrichemical giant Syngenta wants to go green by developing specific varieties of soybeans to be grown away from the ...
German government, farm group face off over impact of potential glyphosate ban
The German agriculture ministry strenuously rubbished a claim by farmers association DBV that the country’s new insect protection plan, which ...
French President Emmanuel Macron challenges legality of town’s glyphosate weed killer ban
French President Emmanuel Macron told a mayor from Brittany who ordered a ban on the use of pesticides near his ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Time to ‘liberate’ UK farming from EU’s anti-GMO rules
In his first prime ministerial speech [July 24], Boris Johnson called for a “liberation” of the U.K.’s bioscience sector after ...
European court recommends gene-edited crops be exempt from EU GMO laws
Gene editing technologies should be largely exempted from EU laws on GM food, although individual states can regulate them if they ...
Did EPA and Monsanto conspire to downplay potential danger of glyphosate before EU review?
The European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking a Monsanto weedkiller to cancer after counsel from a US Environmental ...
Did EU abuse emergency authorizations of neonicotinoids?
The EU has been criticised after a new legal analysis showed it had allowed scores of “emergency authorisations” of banned ...
European commission plans to relicense glyphosate for 10 years according to leaked proposal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European commission is planning to ...
Some EU countries rebel against plans to relicense glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A rebellion by several ...
European commission draft law would renew license for glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European commission plans ...
Is glyphosate carcinogenic or not? Differing assessments lead to dispute in EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A bitter row has ...
EU to approve import of 17 GM foods as part of trade deal
Seventeen new genetically modified food products will be authorised for import to Europe before the end of May in a ...
