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New GMOs: sorting spin from facts – media briefing
The European Parliament’s environment committee will vote on Tuesday to start the final phase of negotiations on a controversial draft EU law on a new breed of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). These GMOs are produced with new genomic techniques (NGT). European governments and the European Parliament are divided and the political fight is expected to…
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EU governments back loophole for new GMOs
Brussels – EU governments have supported a loophole for new genetically modified crops (GMOs) in the EU’s regulations to protect people and nature from potential risks, a move that Greenpeace…
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200+ environment and farmer groups: new GMOs, old problems
Brussels, 11 February 2025 – European countries must protect farmers, small- and medium-sized seed breeders, and the organic and GM-free sectors from threats to their business posed by the deregulation…
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EU food safety watchdog backs controversial Commission plan on new GMO plants
The European Food Safety Authority opinion on new GMOs contradicts the findings of the French, German and Austrian health and environment agencies
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More misery for farmers as EU Parliament endorses draft law to deregulate GMOs
Brussels - The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed a controversial European Commission plan that exempts many new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from current safety rules, ignoring critical science, and farmer and consumer rights.
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MEP backing for GMO deregulation threatens rights of farmers
The European Commission proposal on new GMOs, and amendments supported today by the European Parliament’s environment committee, risk violating the rights of farmers and consumers, according to new legal analysis by Greenpeace.
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Draft EU law on new GMOs threatens legal rights of farmers, faces ECJ rejection
New legal analysis by Greenpeace has found the draft law by the European Commission on new GMOs could violate the individual rights of farmers, in particular their fundamental rights to property and the freedom to run a business.
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EU governments fail to agree Commission plan for new GMOs to escape safety testing
Agriculture ministers failed to reach a political agreement on a plan by the European Commission that would allow a new brand of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) produced with new genomic techniques (NGTs) to escape safety testing. The proposal would scrap most safety checks governing the release of GMOs, despite scientist warnings.
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Spanish EU presidency pushes ahead with controversial plan to allow new GMOs to escape safety testing
Greenpeace EU media briefing – December 2023