News/ResourcesEvents/Conferences
13th May 2026, in Frankfurt, Germany: International Non-GMO Summit 2026: A Key Moment for Europe’s Food and Feed Sector
Press releases/News
Broad coalition calls on CSU (Member of EPP): Bavarian beer must remain GMO-free and patent-free! Passau/München (Germany), 18-19 February 2026
Consumers about losing the battle for GMO-free organic food, SAFE warns 09 February 2026 SAFE – Safe Food Advocacy Europe
New GMOs: EU lawmakers put Big Biotech’s interests over farmers and consumers’ rights 22/12/2025 Friends of the Earth Europe
EU governments sign off on far-reaching GMO deregulation 19 December 2025 Save Our Seeds
EU trilogue paves the way for deregulation 17/12/2025 ENGA
GMO deregulation: Agreement in EU trilogue 5 December 2025 Save Our Seeds
Slow Food condemns EU Deal to deregulate new GMOs 04 Dec 2025 Slow Food
Agreement of NGT trilogue poses a big risk to European food sovereignty: Parliament must act to rectify this 04/12/2025 IFOAM Organics Europe
Trilogue agreement on GMOs-NGTs: A betrayal of farmers’ legitimate concerns on patents, health, the environment, and consumers’ rights to information 4 December 2025 European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC)
New GMOs deal: an early Christmas gift to big biotech 04/12/2025 Friends of the Earth Europe
Maintaining GMO labelling: Businesses write urgent letter to MEPs 11/26/2025 Verband Lebensmittel ohne Gentechnik (VLOG)
Trilogue on GMOs-NGTs : ECVC briefing on patents and sustainability criteria 6 November 2025 European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC)
A coalition of conventional and organic farmers call for an end to patents on seeds 18/06/2025 IFOAM Organics Europe
Urgent call for labelling and traceability of new GM products 19 May 2025 Save Our Seeds
New GMOs: freedom of choice only possible through mandatory labelling, warn 49 civil society organisations 19 May 2025 foodwatch
GMO deregulation may breach international law 24 April 2025 Save Our Seeds
No GMOs through the back door! Ask our politicians to maintain our freedom of choice! April 17, 2025 Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
New GMOs: sorting spin from facts – media briefing 07/04/2025 Greenpeace European Unit
EU ambassadors back new GMOs deregulation: a dark day for farmers, consumers, nature 14/03/2025 Friends of the Earth Europe
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE DEREGULATION OF NEW GMOS 11TH FEBRUARY 2025 Greenpeace
NGT plants: EFSA overlooked most powerful and risky applications April 17, 2024 Testbiotech
ENVI Vote 24th of January 2024- Deregulation of new GMOs opens the door for herbicide-tolerant and pesticide-producing plants- danger to health and environment 19 January 2024 Pesticide Action Network Europe
The hidden dangers of NGTs in the EU: key takeaways from our 30/11/2023 press conference 14/12/2023 IFOAM Organics Europe
NGT deregulation proposal – GMO-free food production at risk 19/07/2023 ENGA
Analysis statement by ENSSER on the EU Commission’s new GM proposal. Here for Annex 1 on NGT “equivalence criteria” 10 July 2023 European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER)
Open letter: European Commission’s biased road to deregulation of new GMOs
Targeted survey is fatally flawed and cannot be used for impact assessment of “new genomic techniques” legislation October 4th 2022 Friends of the Earth Europe
ENSSER Statement on New Genetic Modification Techniques: Products of new genetic modification techniques should be strictly regulated as GMOs 27 September 2017 ENSSER
Reports/Presentations
Webinar: “…far beyond any control or prediction: The convergence of NGTs and AI: risks to biodiversity” January 27th, 2026 Testbiotech
Why plants obtained from new genetic engineering should not be deregulated January 20, 2026 Testbiotech
New Genetic engineering Techniques (NGT): New GMOs in Cultivation, New GMOs in Development January 15, 2026 semnar/saatgutpolitik & wissenschaft
The Potential of NGTs to Overcome Constraints in Plant Breeding and Their Regulatory Implications 25 November 2025 Plant Breeding and Genetics: New Findings and Perspectives
Safeguard the patent-free zone of classical plant breeding in Europe! Patents granted by the European Patent Office put pressure on politics October 2025 NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!
Briefing on Patents on NGT plants and processes September 2025 ARCHE NOAH/Gen-ethische Stiftung
The European Commission’s regulatory proposal on new genomic techniques in plants: a focus on equivalence, complexity, and artificial intelligence 15 September 2025 Environmental Sciences Europe
New GMOs Market Report June 2025 European Non-GMO Industry Association (ENGA), The Non-GMO Project, semnar (seed policy & science)
Briefing paper: New genomic techniques 30 April 2025 Save Our Seeds
When chatbots breed new plant varieties 23 January 2025 Save Our Seeds
New Report Sheds Light on Legal Developments Risking to Deregulate GMOs in Europe and Weaken Environmental Protection Sep 26, 2024 BeeLife
COMMISSION PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION ON NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES (NGT): IN VIOLATION OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE 14.09.2023 Legal opinion On behalf of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group
EU Commission draft proposal for criteria concerning the equivalence of NGT plants to conventional plants Proposed deregulation goes against science 5-7-2023 TESTBIOTECH Background
Films
New Genomic Techniques: a battle to protect consumer choice and organic food production
Safe Food Advocacy Europe – SAFE 2026-02-09
SAFE regrets recent legislative steps to make New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) free from mandatory requirements applicable to other genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and warns that this will mean the end of organic food as we know it. We made a video to demand the reinstatement of mandatory labeling for all GMO plants and derivatives. The current NGT proposal not only threatens transparency but also removes the possibility of coexistence rules, making the contamination of organic farming inevitable.
The Living Solution – Challenging GMO deregulation
Make Impact Films 2025-11-27
A documentary film about GMO deregulation in the EU, directed by Isabelle Denaro. It brings together the perspectives of GMO, agriculture and regulatory experts to provide insight into how deregulation will affect our food, agriculture and ecosystems. The Danish Network for Risk Assessment and Labelling of GMO has helped Isabelle Denaro with crowdfunding and knowledge. You can watch the film without charge through this link.
New Technologies & Denmark’s Food
Is genetically engineered farming the answer to our food crisis?
A Spoil Productions Film 2025-10-21
A short informational documentary that explores the question: Is genetically modified agriculture the answer to our food crisis?
This film was made to support widespread calls for an informed public debate about new types of GMO, with a particular focus on Denmark and other countries of the EU. It has been viewed over 4,000 times and is now subtitled in 6 languages – https://linktr.ee/NewGMO