On May 6, 2020, the Turkish Government published Biosafety Decisions on production of three enzymes using Aspergillus oryzae improved by modern biotechnological methods, for industrial usage purposes.
On March 27, 2020, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture finalized revised Methodological Guidance (MG) that establishes the procedures required to assess the biosafety of viable...
On April 16, 2020, the government of the Russian Federation signed Decree # 520, which says that for the period April 20, 2020 through January 1, 2021, imports of genetically engineered soybeans...
On Friday, February 6, 2015, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski signed an amendment to the Act on genetically engineered (GE) organisms prepared by the Polish Parliament.
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Hungary: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

In Hungary there is both a deep seated social distrust of biotech crops and the belief that Hungarian farmers profit from being a leading GE free supplier of food and feed to European markets.
The Peruvian Agricultural Innovation Institute has confirmed finding adventitious presence of genetically-modified (GM) corn in one corn field in northern Peru.
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EU-28: EU Bio-Based Economy and Its Inputs

This report presents a brief overview of the current status and potential of the EU bio-based economy.
On February 4, President Ma signed an amendment shifting regulatory authority of genetically engineered events in animal feed to the Council of Agriculture.