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After four EU Council presidencies, EU member states and the European Parliament yesterday struck a provisional deal on new genomic techniques under the current Danish presidency, setting clear rules to boost agrifood innovation, plant resilience, transparency and sustainability.

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In times of the pandemic it was called to ban patents that are related to Covid-19 vaccines, medicaments, and diagnostics and the European Parliament was in favour of it. Now there is a call from the European Parliament to ban all patents on new genomics techniques (NTG) and plants. Quo vadis?