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Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Council of the EU Minutes, 8 November 2019
The following is an extract from the minutes of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council meeting on the 8 November 2019
The Council adopted a decision asking the Commission to submit a study on novel genomic techniques under EU law, in the light of the Court of Justice’s judgment in case C-528/16 (12781/19).
Recent developments in new breeding techniques have raised a series of practical questions for national competent authorities on whether such new breeding techniques come under the definition of a GMO and the scope of directive 2001/18/EC and, as a consequence, whether products obtained by means of these techniques should be subject to the obligations laid down in directive 2001/18/EC.
In its judgment in case C-528/16 , the Court of Justice, after considering the overall objectives of directive 2001/18/EC, ruled that new mutagenesis techniques fall within the scope of that directive and are subject to the obligations laid down therein.
Note: the Decision has been published in the Official Journal. See:
