The Council of the European Union (EU) announced on March 14, 2025, that the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of ...

Member states have reached an agreement on the European Council's negotiating mandate on the use of new genomic techniques ...

The agreement on the Council's negotiating mandate allows its presidency to start negotiations with the European Parliament ...

New genomic techniques can increase food security and mitigate climate change effects. EU rules aim to regulate these plant ...

The Council of the EU can now begin the so-called "trilogues" negotiations with the European Parliament and the Commission on the deregulation proposal. Belgium voted for something it doesn't agree ...

A representative group of EU farmers has said it expects progress this week towards a new EU regulation on NGTs.

Testbiotech and Biodynamic Federation respond to the EU vote for GMO deregulation. 1. Economy beats science: Is the EU ready to deregulate NGT plants? – Testbiotech 2. Council m ...

Legislation aims to adapt EU law to reflect scientific and technological progress, enabling the products of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), such ...

Representatives for the bloc's 27 nations endorsed, with a few changes, a European Commission proposal aiming at allowing ...

Currently, these technologies are subject to the EU’s strict GMO regulation, making their commercialisation in the bloc ...

The EU has moved a step closer to lifting the stringent regulation of a new generation of genetically modified crops created using new genomic techniques (NGT), with a clear majority of ...

With the cultivation of genetically modified plants banned in nearly all EU countries, the European Commission wants to treat products of the latest lab techniques as equivalent to conventional crops.