New plant-breeding techniques (NBTs): ECJ Advocate General’s preliminary conclusions A first sound and promising basis on which to proceed “Ever since humans have grown plants and raised animals for food, they have selected plants and animals with beneficial traits for further breeding. Such traits reflected naturally occurring genetic variations and resulted, for example, in […]
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SUSTAINABILITY - 4 August 2022
NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES: MONTHLY NEWS
While the debate on New Genomic Techniques in the EU continues, with European institutions and member states taking clearer positions on the topic – Italian MEPs pledge for the support of the revision of the legislation so to ease the application of new genomic methods for plant breeding; the Italian low Chamber stared formal discussions about the ‘genome editing’ bill; Austria is more than ever convinced to oppose any opening to NGTs -, Japan passed a bill about stricter GM labelling.
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