Dear Readers,

Now that the Polish Council Presidency has abandoned any critical points, especially those on patents, the trilogue on a law on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) will start at the beginning of May. ENGA will advocate to ensure that labelling and traceability for all NGTs, so far only a position of the EU Parliament, and detection methods for plants in the NGT1 category, so far only a position of the Council, find their way into the final legislation. You can find our analysis of the Council's position here.

As far as detection methods are concerned, we would like to see laboratories join forces to sign a letter to the Commission, the Council and the EU Parliament initiated by our new member Imegen Agro from Spain. The main call of the letter: an obligation for NGT marketers to provide detection methods, reference material and information on genetic modification for category 1 plants. Find out more here and send an email to info@enga.org if you want to sign.

Our 6th market report, as always in close cooperation with Donau Soja and the ProTerra Foundation, shows increasing output of all three most important Non-GM crops - soy, maize, rapeseed - in the EU in 2025, but declining Non-GM soy exports from Brazil. The reasons for this and how to counter it will also be one focus of the Non-GM soy conference 2025 on 4 November in Frankfurt/Main, Germany which Donau Soja and ProTerra are organising under the title ‘Market Update and Developments in Sustainability’. You can register here.

Finally, we have two pieces of good news: Our member Loacker from South Tyrol, manufacturer of excellent Non-GMO wafers and chocolates, celebrated its 100th anniversary last week. And if it were up to the Germans, labelling of New GMOs or NGTs would be a no-brainer: according to a study by the German government, 94 percent want mandatory labelling for New GMOs.

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Kind regards, 
Heike Moldenhauer
Secretary General