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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.

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?