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2023-07-07 |

New Genetic Engineering – Small Cause, Big Effect

The EU Commission is presenting a new narrative about GM, the basic concepts of which were first developed over 20 years ago by scientists at Wageningen University

Here's an excellent article about the European Commission's GMO deregulation proposal, by the journalist, former MEP, and expert on GMOs Benedikt Haerlin. He has been around long enough to have witnessed the failed promises of the first generation of GM crops in the 1990s and early 2000s.

2023-07-05 |

GMO deregulation disregards safety and consumer rights

Nature too is at risk

The Commission has published its proposal to weaken regulations around new GMOs and its answers to some FAQs on the topic.

Below are the responses of Friends of the Earth Europe (1) and Greenpeace (2).

1. The EU Commission’s new GMOs proposal sacrifices consumers’ rights and puts nature at risk

2. GMO deregulation disregards safety and consumer rights, Greenpeace

2023-07-05 |

Spectacular submission to the biotech industry and other statements on EU Commission proposal

Austrian government says proposal is "unacceptable"

1. EU Commission proposal to deregulate new GMOs in spectacular submission to the biotech industry – Corporate Europe Observatory

2. Deregulation of new genomic techniques – GMO-free agriculture and food production is at stake – ENGA

3. GLOBAL 2000 on the new genetic engineering bill: Fatal for environment and consumers – Global 2000

4. NGT proposal a step backward for biosafety, freedom of choice and consumers’ information – IFOAM

5. Statement of German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke

6. Austrian government statement: EU proposal on “new genetic engineering” unacceptable

7. Genetic engineering-free plant breeding and seed production soon no longer possible? – IG Saatgut

8. Seed law reform and new genetic engineering: double attack on our seeds! – ARCHE NOAH

2023-07-05 |

EU Commission fulfils wishes of GMO corporations – more civil society reactions

Blank cheque for the genetic engineering industry

1. The EU fulfils wishes of the genetic engineering corporations – Swiss Alliance Gentechfrei SAG

2. Blank check for the genetic engineering industry – AbL e.V.

2023-07-05 |

European Commission proposal on new GMOs is incompatible with the precautionary principle

Corporate interests trump freedom of choice and biosafety

1. Corporate interests trump freedom of choice and biosafety – Biodynamic Federation Demeter International

2. The European Commission proposal on new GMOs is incompatible with the precautionary principle – GMO-Free Italy Coalition

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