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On July 2, 2024, the European Commission approved three genetically engineered crops (maize/corn) for food and animal feed. The three authorizations were published in the European Union’s Official Journal on July 4, 2024, and they remain valid for 10 years.

On January 22, 2021, the European Commission (EC) approved five genetically engineered (GE) crops (three corn and two soybeans) and renewed the authorization for three corn crops used for food...

On July 26, 2019, the Commission authorized nine genetically modified products for food and feed uses and one as ornamental cut flower.

On July 25, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment that organisms created through many newer genome editing techniques are to be regulated....

On January 18, 2018, an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) is expected to publish his legal opinion clarifying how certain innovative plant breeding techniques....

On February 14, 2017, the European Commission published a legislative proposal to amend the EU’s comitology rules (Regulation EU 182/2011).

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.

A European Union (EU) directive that allows EU Member States (MS) to ban the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants in their respective territories for non-scientific reasons was adopted...

This report supplements the EU-28 Agricultural Biotechnology Annual 2014 report with information about the new regulation that allows each EU Member State to “opt-out” of GE crop cultivation...