After the EU Vote on New GMOs: Defending Seeds, Biodiversity and Food Democracy - Organic Consumers
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MEPs adopted on Wednesday 17 June, without amending it, the regulation on "new genomic technologies. The "new GMOs" will therefore be deployed without traceability, labelling and evaluation, while being patentable. Their critics fear that "privatisation of the living" will take place.
This Wednesday, the European Parliament authorised the use of "new genomic techniques" in agriculture, an innovation that promises increased yields and better resistance to climate change but raises concerns in part of the agricultural world.
The European Parliament has approved legislation that relaxes the rules on the labelling of plants modified with new genomic techniques. Plants with fewer than 20 genome changes will no longer have to be labelled.
DECRYPTAGE - A regulation on new techniques for genetic modification of plants, known as NTG (or NGT in English), was adopted in the European Parliament this Wednesday.
After the EU Vote on New GMOs: Defending Seeds, Biodiversity and Food Democracy - Organic Consumers
After the EU Vote on New GMOs: Defending Seeds, Biodiversity and Food DemocracyJune 17, 2026 | Source: Navdanya International | by Seed Freedom With its final vote on the regulation of plants produced by New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), the European Parliament has chosen to dismantle core safeguards that have protected Europe’s biodiversity, farmers and citizens for decades. By treating many gene‑edited plants as “equivalent” to conventional ones,…
The European Union simplifies approvals for some plants created by genetic editing so that farmers have rapid access to more resistant varieties of diseases, drought and pests.
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