The decision of whether to release transgenic crops in the EU is one subject to flexibility, uncertainty, and irreversibility. We analyse the case of herbicide tolerant sugar beet and reassess whether the 1998 de facto moratorium of the EU on transgenic crops for sugar beet was correct from a...

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...