New Breeding Techniques Platform
NBT Platform
The New Breeding Techniques Platform (‘NBT Platform’) is a coalition of SMEs, large industry and prominent academic and research institutes which strives to bring clarity to the European debate on New Breeding Techniques.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
11 Sept 2018 · The legal status of NBTs in Europe and the implications of the ECJ ruling for the agri-food sector
Meeting with Robert Schröder (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)
11 Sept 2018 · legal status of NBTs in Europe
Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
27 Jun 2018 · New breeding techniques
Meeting with Anthony Agotha (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
6 Dec 2017 · Explanatory Note on NBTs (New Breeding Techniques Platforms)
Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
28 Feb 2017 · the Commission’s Explanatory Note on NBTs and the ECJ’s preliminary procedure that will clarify the legal status of organisms obtain with mutagenesis
Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
24 Oct 2016 · NBTs
Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
24 May 2016 · implications of the upcoming “Guidance document that will clarify the legal status of NBTs” for the EU agricultural and plant breeding sector, negative consequences that a classification of these techniques under the EU GMO legislation may imply for European farmers and plant breeders sector, the legal interpretation of the Dir. 2001/18/EC; the socio-economic impact of the Guidance document on the food supply-chain; the impact of the Guidance document on the European plant breeding sector and the legal status of NBTs outside the EU
Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
22 Mar 2016 · discuss the implications of this guidance document for the EU agricultural and plant breeding sector
Meeting with José Mendes Bota (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)
15 Mar 2016 · Legal status of New Breeding Techniques
Meeting with Hilde Hardeman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)
22 Feb 2016 · New breeding techniques
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
14 Jul 2015 · NBTs
Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)
27 Apr 2015 · Update on the recent contacts NBT Platform had with MS representatives on the issue of NBTs