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Italy: Biotech Industry 2016

Again, this year, Italy’s biotechnology industry is characterized as a dynamic and promising sector, despite the difficult economic situation that biotech companies have to confront on a daily basis
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Philippines: Philippine Supreme Court Reverses Decision

In a July 26, 2016 press briefing, the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) reversed its December 2015 decision stopping the field testing, propagation, commercialization, and importation of genetically...
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Peru: New Biotechnology Regulations Maintain Status Quo

On the 20th of July, President Humala of Peru signed an Executive Decree N° 006-2016-MINAM with a procedure and plan for surveillance and early detection of genetically engineered organisms...
In 2013, the Bangladesh Standards Testing Institute published a guideline to assess the food safety of products derived from genetically engineered (GE) plants.
On May 15, 2014, the Ministry of Science and Technology gazetted the Work Plan for the National Biotechnology Policy 2012.
The legal analysis on whether or not certain New Plant Breeding Techniques, known as NBTs, fall under the scope of the European GMO legislation is expected to be published soon.