SECTORAL POLICIES / Gmos

Petition signed by 420,000 Europeans calls on Commission not to exempt new GMOs from current EU rules

Brussels, 07/02/2023 (Agence Europe)

A coalition of more than 50 organisations from 17 EU Member States is opposing the European Commission’s deregulation of GMOs from new genomic techniques. These NGOs submitted a petition to the European Commission on Tuesday 7 February, asking that the new generation of genetically modified organisms remain regulated and labelled in accordance with the rules in force under Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms(see EUROPE...