On Tuesday 6 May, the EU institutions held their first political meeting on the rules governing the use of new genomic techniques (NGTs).
The Polish Presidency of the EU Council and the European Parliament presented their respective mandates, and each institution seemed to remain firm in its position on the most contentious issues, such as the assessment criteria for categories 1 and 2 of plants derived from NTGs. NTG plants, considered equivalent to conventional plants (category 1), would...