b'PRODUCT CATEGORIES NGT - Verification ProcedureConventional NGT Category 1 GMO(conventional-like)cross-breeding,GMO techniquesequivalent toNGT Transgenic including bylisted under AnnexconventionalCategory 2 plantsusing advancedIB of 2001/18 plants if techniquesMutagenesis equivalence such as embryocriteria are met Adapted GMO Full GMO risk rescue, inducedProtoplast fusion polyploidy and(cells fromrisk assessment assessmentbridge crosses crossable species) No risk assessmentGMO labellingGMO labelling (+trait) + PublicPublic GMO No risk assessment Seed bag NGTGMO register registerlabelling + NGT info No labelling public register (adapted)detection methoddetection methodNo detection method No detection method No Opt out by MS Opt out by MSNot allowed for Allowed for organic farming organic farming Not allowed for organic farmingListing in National and EU Variety Cataloguethe Commission would be able to provide comments to the draft verification report ofEQUIVALENCE CRITERIA PROPOSALa national competent authority. This would lead to a delay in the verification process andA NGT plant would be considered equivalent to conventional plants an assessment by the European Food Safetywhen it differs from the recipient/parental plant by no more than 20 Authority (EFSA) and the Commission asgenetic modifications of the types referred to in points 1 to 5, in any well as a voting by member states before theDNA sequence sharing sequence similarity with the targeted site that Commission takes a final decision on thecan be predicted by bioinformatic tools.verification.AUTHORIZATION PROCESS FOR(1) substitution or insertion of no more than 20 nucleotides;CATEGORY 2 NGT PLANTS AND(2) deletion of any number of nucleotides;PRODUCTS (3)on the condition that the genetic modification does not interrupt The authorization process for Category 2an endogenous gene:NGT plants and products would be based on molecular data to confirm absence of(a) t argeted insertion of a contiguous DNA sequence existing in the foreign genes, molecular data on geneticbreeders gene pool;modifications and could require additional data for composition, phenotype, toxicity/ (b)targeted substitution of an endogenous DNA allergenicity if the problem formulationsequence with a contiguous DNA sequence gives rise to a plausible risk hypothesis.existing in the breeders gene pool;Category 2 plants would also require a(4)targeted inversion of a sequence of anydetection method that complies with thenumber of nucleotides;requirements for GMO detection methods. In cases where it would not be feasible to(5) any other targeted modification of provide an analytical method that detects,any size, on the condition that the identifies and quantifies, if duly justified byresulting DNA sequences already the notifier or the applicant, the modalitiesoccur (possibly with modifications to comply with analytical method require- as accepted under points (1) and/ments could be adapted. The labelling of category 2 NGT products as GMO couldor (2)) in a species from the be complemented with information on thebreeders gene pool.trait conferred by the genetic modification.12ISEED WORLD EUROPEIEUROPEAN-SEED.COM'