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The European Parliament has officially adopted its mandate for negotiations with Member States on the proposed deregulation of so-called new GMOs.The votes in favor were 307, 263 against and 41 abstentions.The vote of the Italian MEPs was decisive, with the conservative deputies in the majority clearly in favor of the measure.The front of the Socialists and Democrats and, therefore, the delegation of the Democratic Party were split in half.The only ones who were united and opposed were the deputies of the 5 Star Movement who once again followed the Green line.The ball therefore now passes to the Member States, whose Agriculture Ministers do not yet have a common position on the issue.At present, all plants obtained with new genomic techniques (NGT) are subject to the same rules as conventional genetically modified organisms, but the aim of this legislative process is to facilitate approval for at least part of the products obtained with these techniques. The criticism from environmenta...