Research, investigations and positions

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From our partner organisations

Organisation: AbL (Germany)

• CRISPR & CO - New genetic engineering - regulation or free pass? (2022)

Organisation: Testbiotech (Germany)fileadmin/files/gmo-free-regions/GMO_Free_Europe_2022/textbiotech_vzbv-report.pdf

• New genomic techniques (NGTs) – agriculture, food production and crucial regulatory issues (for German consumer group vzbv) (2022)
• Unintended effects caused by techniques of new genetic engineering create a new quality of hazards and risks (2022)
• New GE and food plants: The disruptive impact of patents on breeders, food production and society (2021)

Organisation: Friends of the Earth Europe

• Generation unknown: exposing the truth behind the new generation of GMOs (2021)

Organisation: Global 2000 (Austria)

• With others: EXPOSED, How biotech giants use patents and new GMOs to control the future of food (2022)

Organisation: Corporate Europe Observatory (EU)

Organisation: Beyond GM (UK)

•  Briefing on the UK Genetic Technology Bill
• UK Civil society to MPs: The gene editing bill must be amended (2022)
• NGOS say UK and EU supermarkets must support GMO regulation (2022)
• Scientists and policy experts: The term “precision breeding” misleads and has no place in serious legislation (2022)
• Sustainability is not the same as safety 
• Filling in the Blanks – What Defra Didn’t Say
•  Voices from the Ground – Public Engagement in the Regulation of Agricultural Gene Editing  
•  Modifying the Rules – An Overview of the Divisions and Inconsistencies in the Global Regulation of Agricultural Gene Editing

Organisation: European Coordination of Via Campesina

• Impacts of the Commission’s initiative to amend GMO regulation on the application of European patent law

From other organisations and institutions

Institution: Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (CH)

• Climate change, agriculture and the role of biotechnology
• Changement climatique, agriculture et rôle des biotechnologies
• Klimawandel, Landwirtschaft und die Rolle der Biotechnologie

Project: Genetic Engineering and the Environment (Germany)

• Background information dossiers on CRISPR/Cas technology, possibilities and risks

Scientific publications of special interest

Agnes E. Ricroch et. al., New Biotechnology 66 (2022) Next biotechnological plants for addressing global challenges: The contribution of transgenesis and new breeding techniques
A quantitative overview of NGT plants and patents