Global Plant Council's uttalelse om regulering av genredigerte planter

EF-domstolens dom: EUs medlemsstater kan ikke vedta krisetiltak vedrørende genetisk modifisert mat og fôr med mindre det er tydelig at det er en alvorlig risiko for helse eller miljø
Oktober 1, 2017
Ifølge Generaladvokaten Bobek, organismer oppnådd ved mutagenese er, i prinsippet, unntatt fra forpliktelser i genetisk modifiserte organismer direktiv.
Januar 18, 2018

Kortfattet sammendrag: 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) forskrifter.

The full statement can be downloaded her.