ResourcesPress releases
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
No GMOs through the back door! Ask our politicians to maintain our freedom of choice! April 17, 2025 Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
EU ambassadors back new GMOs deregulation: a dark day for farmers, consumers, nature 14/03/2025 Friends of the Earth Europe
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
Reports
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
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
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