Press Release: Commission publishes new report on national strategies to ensure coexistence of genetically modified crops with conventional and organic farming

Member States have made significant progress in developing coexistence legislation during the last years. This development of the legislative framework has gone hand in hand with a moderate expansion of the cultivation of GM crops. At the present time there is no indication of the need to deviate from the subsidiarity-based approach on coexistence. The Commission will continue to develop recommendations for crop-specific technical segregation measures together with Member States and stakeholders. These were the main conclusion of the second report from the European Commission on the coexistence of GM crops with conventional and organic farming, published on 2 April.