Regolamentazione

The EU agriculture ministers did not reach the qualified majority to give the green light to new genomic biotechnologies, that is, the whole set of latest generation genetic modification techniques that the EU Commission would like to deregulate.At present these techniques are in fact treated on a par with traditional GMOs, but the objective of the EU executive is to change things and thus simplify the authorization procedures.For the moment, however, around half of the Member States have not agreed.Those who stood in the way were Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.Italy, for its part, voted in favor, maintaining its usual position aligned with the interests of large companies.Agriculture Minister Lollobrigida - commented the GMO-Free Italy Coalition - "has therefore once again preferred to chase the sirens of the agro-industrial, seed and agrochemical lobbies, in contempt of the precautionary principle and the rights of fa...