As the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) prepares to vote on the New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) Regulation on 28 January, Euroseeds stresses the importance of preserving the compromise to ensure the file’s smooth adoption.
ENVI is scheduled to vote on the compromise text on 28 January — an essential step toward the final adoption of forward-looking EU legislation that supports innovation in plant breeding.
Following the successful conclusion of trilogue negotiations in December 2025, which resulted in a compromise that maintains the European Commission’s core approach — distinguishing between different categories of NGT-derived plant products — Euroseeds strongly calls on ENVI members to support the agreed text and enable Europe’s breeders and farmers to use these latest breeding methods, according to a press release.
Any further delay would have serious negative consequences: European plant breeders and seed companies would lose competitiveness; farmers would be denied timely access to innovative, climate-resilient crop varieties; and consumers would miss out on improved products for the next decade or more. Ultimately, delays would weaken Europe’s food security and resilience.
“The agreement reached at the end of last year was a decisive step forward,” Garlich von Essen, Secretary General and CEO of Euroseeds, stated. “The text does not reflect entirely the positions of the plant breeding and seed sector, but it provides the basis to finally enable innovation in EU agriculture. Reopening the text in Parliament would create uncertainty and delay benefits that farmers, breeders and society urgently need. We therefore call on Members of the European Parliament’s COMENVI to approve the text as it stands and enable Euro pe to move forward and catch-up with the rest of the world.”
Euroseeds reaffirms its commitment to continue working constructively with EU institutions and regulators to support the effective and timely implementation of the NGT Regulation, so that its full potential for European agriculture, competitiveness, and food security can be realised without delay.
