Certain new plant breeding techniques and their marketability in the context of EU GMO legislation - recent developments.

Certain new plant breeding techniques and their marketability in the context of EU GMO legislation - recent developments. N Biotechnol. 2019 Feb 16;: Authors: Zimny T, Sowa S, Tyczewska A, Twardowski T Abstract The comparatively low adoption rate of GMO products in the European Union (EU) market seems to be connected with the strictness of authorization regulations and inefficiency of the authorization process itself. These problems will apply to any product deemed to be a GMO that could potentially be marketable in the EU. Since modern methods of plant breeding involving oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis (ODMs) or site-directed nucleases (SDNs), including Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), are becoming ever more popular, it is crucial to establish whether the products of such new breeding techniques (NBTs), in particular those which involve precise methods of mutagenesis, are exempted from the EU legislation on GMOs or not. Legal uncertainty as to their status may result in reluctance to invest in such methods and develop them further. Here, developments are presented in the legal classification of certain NBT products in the context of recent decisions and jurisprudence. The socioeconomic aspects of GMO adoption in both global and European contexts are discussed. The legal and practical landscape of GMO regulation in the EU is presented and how it may pose an obstacle to investment and the develo...
Source: New Biotechnology - Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tags: N Biotechnol Source Type: research