The European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture will vote, on 11 December, on its opinion prepared by Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czech) on the proposal for a framework for new genomic techniques (NGTs). The political groups on this committee have drawn up compromise amendments.
On the sensitive issue of patents, an amendment stipulates that plants obtained using NGTs “shall not be patentable”.
Furthermore, according to another compromise amendment, the decision on whether or not to...