European UnionOrganisations and institutions
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
European Coordination Via Campesina
European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER)
Testbiotech – Institute for Independent Impact Assessment of Biotechnology
European Union
Novel Food: Novel Food is defined as food that had not been consumed to a significant degree by humans in the EU before 15 May 1997, when the first Regulation on novel food came into force.
Council Directive 90/220/EEC of 23 April 1990 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms
Genetically Modified Organisms
Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions
Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC – Commission Declaration
GMO authorisations for cultivation
Directive (EU) 2015/412 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2015 amending Directive 2001/18/EC as regards the possibility for the Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their territory Text with EEA relevance
New GMOs (New Genomic Techniques
Techniques of genetic modification: the Court specifies the status of in vitro random mutagenesis having regard to the GMO Directive (European Court of Justice)
New techniques in biotechnology
Frequently Asked Questions: Proposal on New Genomic Techniques
EC study on new genomic techniques
Questions and Answers: Study on New Genomic Techniques
COM/2023/411 final: Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625
New Genomic Techniques: MEPs want to ban all patents for NGT plants
Biodiversity strategy for 2030
