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EU GM cultivation up to Member States
Jul. 7, 2014
EU legislation foresees that no GMO can be cultivated in the EU if it has not received a prior authorization, following a thorough risk assessment by European Food Safety Authority, in order to ensure safety for human and animal health and for the environment.
While cultivation is recognized to be an issue with strong national or local dimensions, current EU legislation on GMOs offers limited possibilities to Member State to decide on GMO cultivation on their territory. For the moment, Member States can only restrict or ban the cultivation of GMOs by adopting safeguard clauses where new serious risks to human health, animal health and the environment are identified after the GMO has been authorized.
In 2009, 13 Member States asked the Commission for more flexibility to decide not to cultivate GMOs on their territory. This is why, in 2010, the Commission adopted a proposal to the European Parliament and to the Council to offer additional possibilities to Member States to ban or restrict the cultivation of GMOs on part of or all their territory, based on their national circumstances, and without affecting the EU authorization system.
In July 2011, the European Parliament issued a positive first reading opinion with amendments and after several years, the Council adopted on 12 June 2014 a political agreement which will allow the co-legislators to get one step closer towards the adoption of the proposal.
The European Parliament and the Council will continue discussions in second reading to reach agreement on a common text. The GMO cultivation proposal is foreseen for final adoption in 2015.
Source: European Commission
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