Dear Readers,

In case you missed it: Please have a look at the first edition of our New GMOs Market Report, produced in cooperation with the US-based Non-GMO Project and semnar. The main findings may surprise you: New GMOs are hype, not a market reality, the Non-GMO food sector should be prepared but can deal with it.

If there is no breakthrough on the 30th of June (which nobody expects there to be), the trilogue will continue under the Danish Council Presidency. Labelling, traceability and detection methods for New GMOs will then be back on the agenda - as a political question: How much transparency and freedom of choice does the EU legislator want to grant its citizens and food companies? Read the ENGA background paper which states that all three are feasible, necessary and affordable.

In the UK, new regulations, entering into force on 13 November 2025, will allow the environmental release and sale of what UK regulators refer to as "precision-bred", or PBO plants (New GMOs) and the foods derived from them. PBOs in food and feed will not be subject to mandatory labelling or traceability. While the geographical scope of the law is England, via the UK Internal Market Act it is anticipated that the regulations will apply widely to the rest of the UK, as our guest authors Claire Robinson (GMWatch) and Pat Thomas (Beyond GM) point out.

We are happy to welcome our latest member, Imegen Agro, based in Spain, part of the Health in Code Group and a European leader in detecting GMOs, with a portrait.

Meanwhile ENGA is five years old. If you want to give us a birthday present, we have ideas:

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Kind regards, 
Heike Moldenhauer
Secretary General