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Plants produced by certain new genomic techniques

COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)2023/0226(COD)Committee: Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyDG: [SANTE] Health and Food Safety

Policy topics

GMOsEU policy on pesticidesNew Genomic TechniquesSustainable use of seeds in EU policyEU policy on novel foods

What this file does

Overview

The legislative file 2023/0226(COD) concerns a Commission proposal for a regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGTs) and their food and feed. The procedure is ongoing under the ordinary legislative procedure. The analysis is based on the provided procedural narrative, institutional handling data, and a summary of a specific European Parliament document, Amendment 317 to Report A9-0014/2024. This amendment, tabled by a group of MEPs from The Left Group, proposes the outright rejection of the Commission's proposal.

Legislative timeline

The procedural history shows the file has progressed through several stages. Following its referral to the European Parliament's committee in October 2023, a committee report was adopted in January 2024. The plenary held a debate and votes in February and April 2024, ultimately adopting the Parliament's position and referring the file back to committee for interinstitutional negotiations. A provisional agreement was approved by the responsible committee in January 2026. On the Council side, a proposal was noted in December 2025. The next scheduled event is an interinstitutional negotiation, indicating the file is in the trilogue phase.

Institutional handling

The lead Directorate-General in the European Commission is DG SANTE (Health and Food Safety), under the responsibility of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi. Within the Council of the EU, the dossier is handled by the Environment Council configuration (ENV). In the European Parliament, the file has a designated rapporteur, Jessica Polfjärd.

Stakeholder reactions

Stakeholder engagement on this dossier has been significant, with 101 documented meetings held between stakeholders and EU policymakers. Of these, 60 were with Members of the European Parliament, 1 with a Commissioner, and 40 with European Commission staff. The outreach involved 55 distinct organisations. The most frequently engaged organisations were Euroseeds, Corteva Agriscience International SARL, COPA-COGECA, Deutscher Bauernverband, and European Coordination Via Campesina. The provided data on stakeholder positions references topics such as 'EU industrial funding' and 'Carbon capture storage and utilisation', with various organisations expressing support or opposition; however, this specific data does not directly relate to the subject matter of the NGT proposal and appears to be from a different context.

Media coverage

No data on media coverage is provided.

Institutional status

CommissionOngoing
ParliamentAwaiting Parliament 2nd reading
CouncilSecond reading

Official documents (42)

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