- But the EU executive insists that a broad range of voices have already been heard on the contentious issue.
- The letter, signed by a range of European and national campaign groups, holds that a targeted survey – designed to feel the pulse of key stakeholders ahead of the upcoming review of the EU’s rules on the technology – is “fundamentally flawed”.
- The targeted survey, together with a consultation which closed in July 2022, is designed to feed into the Commission’s proposal for a legal framework for plants obtained by certain genetic techniques, known as targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis.
Commission stands by gene editing survey slammed by NGOs
