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Europe-wide action: Blacked-out Ingredients, Label gene-edited food!
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International e.V. and Demeter e.V.
Say no to GMOs in your food – Tell your Parliamentarians before it’s too late!
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
Do not deregulate New Genomic Techniques (NGT) for wild plants!
Petition WeMove Europe: This petition is run by GFÖ Specialist Group ‘NGT’
EU leaders: Protect GMO Labelling!
Petition Ekō People and planet over profit
Stop the deregulation of new GMOs! Write to decision makers now
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Reports and films, see under News/Resources.
Organisations and institutions
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
Corporate Europe Observatory
CEO Newsletter
ENGA European Non-GMO Industry Association
ENGA Newsletter
European Coordination Via Campesina
European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER)
ENSSER Newsletter
IFOAM Organics Europe
IFOAM Newsletter
Slow Food
Slow Food Newsletter
Testbiotech – Institute for Independent Impact Assessment of Biotechnology
Testbiotech Newsletter
European Union
Members of the European Parliament: 720 Members elected in the 27 Member States
The presidency of the Council of the EU: A rotating presidency
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
2023/0226(COD) Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed
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
Directive regarding the placing on the market of genetically modified micro-organisms and the processing of organs
16 December 2025
Proposal for a Regulation to establish measures to strengthen the Union’s biotechnology and biomanufacturing sectors (European Biotech Act) 16 December 2025
New Genomic Techniques: MEPs want to ban all patents for NGT plants
Biodiversity strategy for 2030