In response to the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) judgment in 2018 that GMOs derived from new technologies are GMOs and therefore fall under GMO legislation, the European Commission published a study on new genomic techniques on Thursday 29 April to show that these new GMOs can contribute to sustainable food production.
According to this study, the current legislation on GMOs adopted in 2001 (Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment) is not suitable for these...