The European Commission is currently evaluating different policy options towards the use of cloning or products derived from cloned animals in the food chain. This study presents a first attempt to quantify the likely effects of different policy scenarios on international trade and EU domestic...

The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is currently undertaking research activities in order to describe the current situation and functioning of the markets for non-Genetically Modified Identity Preserved crops and...

'The bioeconomy [...] encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.' This notion of the bioeconomy was formulated in the European Commission's...

'The bioeconomy [...] encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.' This notion of the bioeconomy was formulated in the European Commission's...

• During the last decades developments in plant breeding globally showed a significant shift of activities from the public to the private sector. Crops with a small market share are of less interest for private breeding companies. Therefore, concerns are raised that important crops and traits...

The JRC-IPTS organized a workshop on "Comparative approaches for new plant breeding techniques" in September 2011. In this workshop, the regulatory framework for biotechnology derived crops with specific focus on approaches for new plant breeding techniques in Argentina, Australia, Canada, the...

Harmonised EU legislation regulating organisms produced by modern bio-techniques (GMOs) goes back to the year 1990 and the definition of GMOs was not up-dated since. During the last decade new plantbreeding techniques have been developed. The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies...

This report is based on a study whose main objective was to collect information about the functioning of the EU markets for non-Genetically Modified (non-GM), Identity Preserved (IP) soybean and derived products. Data on volume of imports of non-GM soybean and soybean meal, on the use of those...