The European Commission's Directorate general Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) has announced its intention to publish a legislative proposal in the course of 2023 to modify the current European GMO regulation to exclude certain "new genomic techniques", i.e. certain genetic modification techniques (directed mutagenesis and cisgenesis).
This proposal could lead these techniques to be completed or partially exempted from risk assessment, labelling and traceability requirements that currently apply to GMOs.
While all GMOs, old or new, are covered by patents, what would be the impact of such a deregulation on the scope of these patents in the EU, and thus on the collective rights of peasants on seeds?
In this new report, that has been forwarded to the European Commission, ECVC answers these questions and shows through a thorough analysis and concrete examples that the disappearance of the traceability requirement would lead to abusive extension of the scope of patents, at the expense of the GMO-free agricultural sector and on the rights of peasants and breeders on seeds.
The report is accompanied by an executive summary. Both can be downloaded in English, French, Spanish and Italian in the sidebar.
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Contact information
Cloé Mathurin
EN, FR, ES
Policy officer
cloe@eurovia.org
