The Spanish Presidency of the EU Council hopes to bring the EU Agriculture Ministers to a common position on the proposal to regulate the use of new genomic techniques (NGT) on Monday 11 December.
It presented a draft compromise (https://aeur.eu/f/a1r) enabling the EU Council to reach a political agreement (‘general approach’) on NGT plants.
Discussions between Member States are still ongoing, with some delegations expressing concern about the patentability of NGT plants and the...