At the Standing Committee for Foodstuffs meeting on December 14th the Commission (DG SANCO) announced that it intends to take the discussion paper forward by drafting a Council / European Parliament Regulation on the traceability of all GMOs and derived products. They will also develop a proposal requiring the labelling of all foods derived from GMOs, although the precise form of this proposal hasn't been decided yet. The proposals will be discussed internally within the commission in January and are expected to be published in the first quarter of next year.