To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to publish a technical definition or guidance on the genetic changes allowed under Regulation 2(2) (a) of the draft Statutory Instrument The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022.
Answered on
1 February 2022
The Government is taking a step wise approach to revising how we regulate the use of organisms developed using genetic technologies such as gene editing where the end product could have been produced by traditional breeding methods, which will include the development of guidance to inform this process.
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