Netherlands supports GMO legislation improvement in Ukraine

Added on 05 December 2024

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Netherlands supports GMO legislation improvement in Ukraine

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For the last 3 years EU supported project was working on improvement GMO legislation in Ukraine. Netherlands together with Poland and Latvia supported legislation analysis, development of regulations on GMO and seeds, providing recommendation on its implementation.

On November 21, 2024, the closing conference of the Twinning Project, ″Approximation of national legislation of Ukraine in the fields of state supervision (control) of GMOs in open systems, protection of plant variety rights, and seed and seeding production in line with EU norms and standards″, took place. Supported by the European Union, this project brought together the efforts of a consortium comprising Latvia, Poland, and the Netherlands, with Ukraine’s State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection (SSUFSCP) as the main beneficiary.