In an opinion published on 21 March, the Belgian Superior Health Council (SHC) issued a favourable opinion on the proposal for a regulation on plants obtained using certain new genomic techniques (NGT).
This positive opinion comes at a time when the Council of the EU is still divided over how to regulate the use of these techniques (see EUROPE B13379A4).
On 6 March, experts from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) were critical of the European...