Deputy leader of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament Michèle Rivasi (France) restated her group’s position on Monday 23 July that new GMOs developed through new biotechnological industry techniques should be subject to the requirements of Directive 2001/18 governing marketing authorisation of GMOs.
On 25 July, the ruling by the European Court of Justice on the legal status of “new GMOs” derived from what the industry calls “new selection techniques” is awaited– a...