Declaración do Consello Global das Plantas sobre a regulación de plantas editadas por xenes

Sentencia do CEJ: Os Estados membros da UE non poderán adoptar medidas de emerxencia con respecto a alimentos e pensos modificados xeneticamente a non ser que resulte evidente que existe un grave risco para a saúde ou o medio ambiente
Outubro 1, 2017
Segundo o avogado xeral BOBEK, organismos obtidos por mutagênese son, en principio,, exentos das obrigas na Directiva Organismos Xeneticamente Modificados.
Xaneiro 18, 2018

Sumario executivo: The advent of gene editing as a plant breeding method presents important opportunities for making very precise changes in genomes to obtain desired traits or remove undesirable traits. As with all newly developed plants, plants with genetic changes obtained through genome editing are subject to existing plant-variety development systems. In as far as those genetic changes are indistinguishable from what can be obtained using conventional strategies, we recommend the resulting plants are subject only to existing systems for variety development. Only when genetic changes go well beyond what can be obtained with conventional breeding strategies might the resulting plants also be subject to biosafety (e.g. GMO) regulamentos.

The full statement can be downloaded aquí.