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The Commission’s pro­posed Reg­u­la­tion on plants obtained with New Genom­ic Tech­niques (NGT) aims to accel­er­ate mar­ket access for the lat­est gen­er­a­tion of GM plants and avoid con­sumer rejec­tion of GM food. The pro­pos­al expos­es con­sumers and the envi­ron­ment to unknown risks, jeop­ar­dis­es both organ­ic and con­ven­tion­al GMO-free agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion and would lead to a surge of patent­ed GM seeds. With­out labelling of final prod­ucts, con­sumers would be left in the dark.

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Dereg­u­lat­ing new GMOs will cause prob­lems for farm­ers and breed­ers. These prob­lems include biopira­cy, increased risk of law­suits against farm­ers and breed­ers, admin­is­tra­tive bur­den due to legal uncer­tain­ty, increased pro­duc­tion costs, risk of los­ing their busi­ness, reduced seed vari­ety and increased vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to pests and dis­eases.

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The increas­ing use of gen­er­a­tive arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) tools is dri­ving a pro­found trans­for­ma­tion in plant genet­ic engi­neer­ing. On the one hand, AI could enhance the pre­ci­sion and effi­cien­cy of CRISPR gene edit­ing. On the oth­er hand, AI-dri­ven genet­ic engi­neer­ing is sus­cep­ti­ble to well-known lim­i­ta­tions of AI, such as the black box effect, hal­lu­ci­na­tions and data errors, rais­ing sig­nif­i­cant con­cerns about the safe­ty of engi­neered plants.

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Brus­sels, 8 Jan­u­ary 2025 – On Jan­u­ary 7, 2025, the Pol­ish EU Pres­i­den­cy released a new com­pro­mise pro­pos­al on the dereg­u­la­tion of plants genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered through gene-edit­ing tech­niques like CRISPR-Cas. The pro­pos­al does lit­tle to address the sig­nif­i­cant reg­u­la­to­ry gaps cre­at­ed by this draft law.

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