A coalition of 162 civil society organisations, farmers and businesses wrote a letter to European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, on Tuesday 30 March, urging him to oppose “any weakening of EU GMO regulations and to ensure the full application of the CJEU ruling of 25 July 2018, in line with the precautionary principle”.
They are concerned about new genomic techniques, in particular, the gene drive technique.
According to the Court of Justice (case C-528/16),...