Press Release: Member States deliver no opinion in Standing Committee on proposals for the authorisation of 4 GMOs

The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has returned no definitive opinion either for or against Commission proposals to authorise 3 genetically modified maize varieties (for food and feed, import and processing) and a GM potato (for feed and adventitious presence in food and feed). As a result, the Commission must now transmit the dossiers to Council. If the Council does not reach a position within 3 months, the proposals will be sent back to the Commission for final adoption. The proposals to authorise the 4 GMOs are based on favourable scientific assessments from the European Food Safety Authority, which addressed all safety concerns and found there to be no risk to human or animal health or to the environment from these products.