On the night of Wednesday 3 to Thursday 4 December, the EU Council and European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on a regulation governing the use of new genomic techniques (NGTs).
European Parliament’s rapporteur, Jessica Polfjärd (EPP, Swedish), described the day as historic, after two years of negotiations. In her view, this technology will enable EU farmers to grow crops “capable of withstanding climate change and achieving higher yields on less land”. The EU Council...