Overview of EU legislation on GMOs

EU legislation on GMOs has been in place since the early 1990s. This specific legislation has two main objectives:

• to protect health and the environment,
• to ensure the free movement of safe and healthy genetically modified products in the European Union.

The entire corpus of GMO legislation has recently been amended, leading to the creation of a new legal framework.

The latest official legislation you can find on following web site:

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/