Briefings

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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Fol­low­ing Con­fer­ence of Par­ties 15 (COP15), a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Ad Hoc Tech­ni­cal Expert Group (mAHTEG) on Syn­thet­ic Biol­o­gy was formed. In ear­ly 2024, the mAHTEG issued a set of rec­om­men­da­tions to the SBSTTA, out­lin­ing a method­ol­o­gy for the ‘broad and reg­u­lar’ hori­zon scan­ning process. Draw­ing on the work of the mAHTEG, the Par­ties at SBSTTA 26 should: 1 — Agree the…

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