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UEAA Motion About Gene Editing
16 10 2024
Bucharest 10 October 2024
Having in view:
The theme of the Scientific Symposium “New research techniques and the agricultural progress”,
The scientific communication “Does genome editing have a future in EU agriculture?” authors: Catherine Regnault-Roger, Alain Toppan and Michel Thibier – French Agricultural Academy,
The initiative of the authors of this scientific communication to introduce the debate of a Motion about Gene Editing into the agenda of the 12th General Assembly and UEAA SC,
The 12th General Assembly of the UEAA, debated and adopted unanimously, in Bucharest, at 10 October 2024, the following MOTION:
Genome Editing, and particularly CRISPR technology, has revolutionized plant breeding approaches and has immense benefits as a response to the European Agricultural Challenges and in full agreement with the objectives of the Green Deal for Europe. The European Union must look with confidence to an agricultural future based on biotechnological innovation.
UEAA recommends the adoption of relevant regulatory rules on Gene Editing that reinforce an EU agriculture more productive, environmentally friendly and economically competitive in a globalized world.