The European Union appears ready to facilitate approval of gene-edited crops and usher in a new era on the continent, one where plants created using “new genomic techniques” (NGTs) are no longer substantially barred from production.
After the long-running virtual exclusion of genetic engineering in agriculture in Europe, change is now in the air, with the European Commission putting forward a proposal to update EU rules to reflect the greater precision of new gene editing techniques.
EU agriculture ministers turned up the pressure for a relaxation of the rules on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to allow the use of genome editing in crop plants at an EU Council meeting last Friday.
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