New cross-boundary EU food policy effort coordinated by DG SANTE Within its European Green Deal, the new European Commission’s major ambition that has a direct impact on crop biodiversity is the cross-cutting “Farm to Fork Strategy”. The Strategy, which is...
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New Genetic Engineering Techniques / Feb. 2020
European Commission study on “new genomic techniques” At the end of 2019, Member States requested the Commission’s DG SANTE (Unit Biotechnology) to conduct a study to clarify the legal status of “new genomic techniques” under European law, following the European...
Seed Marketing Directives / Feb. 2020
European Commission kicks off background work for the Study In November 2019, Member States of the European Union have requested the European Commission to conduct a study on the Union’s options to update the existing legislation on the production and marketing...
Organic Regulation / Feb. 2020
Drafting of the Delegated and Implementing Acts on seeds progresses Adopted in 2018, and entering into force in January 2021, the Organic Regulation offers considerable advances for the marketing of organic seeds, either from “organic heterogeneous material”, or...
