Study: proposal for new genetic engineering illegal

According to a legal opinion commissioned by the Green parliamentary group, the EU Commission’s proposal to permit „New Genomic Techniques“ (NGT), such as CrisprCas, in plant breeding is incompatible with the precautionary principle prescribed in the Lisbon Treaty. The EU committed to case-by-case risk assessments of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the „Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety“ before their application. However, the EU Commission is now proposing to completely exempt plants obtained using NGT from the scope of EU genetic engineering law and only register them in a database, criticized the Berlin law firm GGSC in a legal assessment commissioned by the Green parliamentary group, which is available to Table.Media.