The German BfN wants to highlight the importance of an Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) process targeting environmental effects, along with the implementation of appropriate safeguards within the biotechnology sector including genetic engineering.
FAN
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Public authority · Germany
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2
positions filed
in the 655 files tracked
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legislative files
of 655 tracked
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attached to a submission
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Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) filed 2 positions between 11 Jun 2025 and 28 Sept 2026, across 2 of the 655 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 1 time.
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What they argued
Contributions of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN): Persistance and Invasiveness: Likely scenarios of NGT2 plants (NGT2-P) include traits for agriculture (yield, resistance to biotic and abiotic stressors) or bioeconomy. Many of such traits require significant metabolic changes or may result in phenotypic changes increasing fitness of NGT2-P, also under natural conditions (Dolezel et al.
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