EU Parliament votes in favor of easing restrictions on genetic engineering. The prerequisite is that the new breeding could also have been created using conventional methods.
The EU Commission proposed deregulation last summer. Consumer advocates still often reject the reform, saying consumers should be able to decide for themselves whether to buy products containing genetic engineering, as they are not completely unchanged today. The aim of the relaxation is, among other things, to give farmers access to more resilient plants that, for example, require fewer pesticides or can cope better with climate change.