October 2017 Few facts: Between 2010 and 2014, 5,337 new patent applications relating to precision and conventional equipment for agriculture were registered worldwide; 70% of those new agriculture patents were assigned to North America (the location of the filing company’s main headquarters), only 15% in Europe. During the last few years, the EU has […]
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NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES: UK & CHINA FRONTRUNNERS IN RELAX OF RESTRICTIONS
More and more crops that have been genetically modified are being approved for field experimentation, such as lettuce, rice, maize. Whereas in the UK political declaration are pointing at the direction of a more relax legislative environment for gene editing, in China, public authorities are about to draft new rules to ease the application and approval procedure for edited crops.
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