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Save Our Seeds was found­ed in 2002 as the Berlin office of the Foun­da­tion on Future Farm­ing. Since then, we have been cam­paign­ing for respon­si­ble reg­u­la­tion of genet­ic engi­neer­ing. We work for agroe­co­log­i­cal and organ­ic inno­va­tion in Euro­pean and glob­al agri­cul­ture.

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Image © European Union. Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, presents the A points.

EU ministers approve GMO deregulation deal  

22 April 2026 / EU
On 21 April, the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters for­mal­ly adopt­ed the out­come of tri­logue nego­ti­a­tions on the EU’s pro­posed new leg­is­la­tion for genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied plants devel­oped with so-called new genom­ic tech­niques (NGTs). Save Our Seeds is call­ing on Euro­pean cit­i­zens to urge their Mem­bers of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment to reject the bill.
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EU governments sign off on far-reaching GMO deregulation

19 Decem­ber 2025 / EU
Brus­sels, 19 Decem­ber 2025 – A qual­i­fied major­i­ty of EU Mem­ber States today backed the dereg­u­la­tion of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied (GM) plants pro­duced using so-called new genom­ic tech­niques (NGTs). Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Bul­gar­ia, Croa­t­ia, Ger­many, Hun­gary, Roma­nia, Slo­va­kia, and Slove­nia did not indi­cate sup­port dur­ing this morning’s meet­ing of the Com­mit­tee of Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tives (COREPER) in Brus­sels.
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EU governments sign off on far-reaching GMO deregulation

19 Decem­ber 2025 / EU
Brus­sels, 19 Decem­ber 2025 – A qual­i­fied major­i­ty of EU Mem­ber States today backed the dereg­u­la­tion of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied (GM) plants pro­duced using so-called new genom­ic tech­niques (NGTs). Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Bul­gar­ia, Croa­t­ia, Ger­many, Hun­gary, Roma­nia, Slo­va­kia, and Slove­nia did not indi­cate sup­port dur­ing this morning’s meet­ing of the Com­mit­tee of Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tives (COREPER) in Brus­sels.
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GMO deregulation: Protest in front of the German Chancellery

2 Decem­ber 2025 / EU
Berlin, 2 Decem­ber 2025 — An alliance of envi­ron­men­tal and farm­ing organ­i­sa­tions protest­ed today out­side the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery against plans to dereg­u­late genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied plants cre­at­ed with new genet­ic mod­i­fi­ca­tion (GM) tech­niques. The groups urged the Ger­man gov­ern­ment to reject any deal emerg­ing from tomorrow’s EU tri­logue nego­ti­a­tions unless essen­tial safe­guards are includ­ed.
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