According to the Aurelia Foundation, deregulation of new genetic engineering (gene scissors) is not a smart political move, but a serious threat to biodiversity
In a recent statement, the scientific Society for Ecology in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfOE) warns against the EU Commission’s planned abolition of risk assessment for the majority of plants from new genetic engineering (NGT).
The GfOE, the world’s third largest scientific society in the field of ecology, criticises the fact that the EU Commission’s proposal fails to „recognise fundamental ecological principles“ at the application level of new genetic engineering. In addition, the threshold definition of so-called NGT1 plants, in which no foreign genetic material is incorporated, fails to take environmental risks into account. In its statement, the GFÖ warns that the deregulation of all NGT1 plant species worldwide could pose a serious threat to the conservation of biodiversity and sustainability.
