Ecuador: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual
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On January 20, 2022, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador declared the unconstitutionality of article 56 of the Law on Seeds, Agrobiodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture, which allowed the President of the Republic to authorize the introduction of GE seeds for other purposes than research, now the President should ask for permission to the National Assembly who will evaluate the request. On September 13, 2023, the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, signed the Ministerial agreement No. 063, approving the “Technical guide for the use of seeds or crops obtained by Precision breeding techniques is approved. This technical guide establishes the procedure for determine whether a seed or crop obtained from precision breeding techniques is capable of registration or marketing as a conventional one, in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Law on Agrobiodiversity, Seeds and Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture and its Regulations.
