Global Regulatory Status of Gene Edited Products by S. Ruthner during the Regional Expert Consultation on Gene Editing in Agriculture and its Regulations Technical Session I
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Global Regulatory Status of Gene Edited Products
1. Global Regulatory Status of Gene
Edited Products
Regional Expert Consultation on Gene Editing in Agriculture and its Regulation
10-11 October, 2019 Hyderabad, India
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• “Voice of the global seed industry”
• Non-governmental, non-profit making organization
• Recognizes its members’ contributions to
food security and sustainable agriculture.
What is ISF?
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Plant Breeding Innovation: Goals of Global Seed Sector
The seed sector and agriculture are global—what are
our goals?
─ Clear, science-based, government policy
─ Facilitation of innovation and collaboration
─ Consistent policies across economies
8. Basic Approach
• Goal: Consistent, science-based approach for regulatory
oversight
• Agreement among governments on the criteria
to determine the scope of regulatory oversight
Underlying principle:
“Plant varieties developed through the latest breeding
methods should not be differentially regulated if they are
similar or indistinguishable from varieties that could have
been produced through earlier breeding methods.”
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9. What we need….
Two essential factors affect predictability of policy approach
1. Agreement on criteria to determine scope of regulatory
oversight
2. Agreement around implementation--timelines and any
requirements
Recognition of the existing regulatory mechanisms for new
plant varieties and resulting products
• variety registration
• seed laws and regulations
• phytosanitary regulations
• general environmental safety/liability laws and
regulations
• general food/feed laws and regulations
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Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay
Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala:
Case-by-case approach, excluding
certain edited products (El
Salvador likely to follow)
NZ: High Court decision that a few
specific techniques are GMO
US: Proposed new USDA
policy excludes certain
techniques; Executive
Order on Modernizing
Regulatory Framework for
Biotechnology
Canada: Product based
approach; ongoing discussions
to improve system
Europe: ECJ decision calls all
mutagenesis “GMO” and subject
to EU GMO regulation
China: China
unofficial “GMO-lite”
proposal
Australia: Revised gene tech
regulation exclude some gene
editing applications
Israel: Guidance that
specific techniques
are outside GMO
scope
Policy developments in different Countries around the world (10/2019)
Russia: decree for R&D program
clarifying that “conventional-like”
genome editing products are not
regulated as “GMO”
Japan: excluding
certain edited
products (Korea
likely to follow)
11. Comparison of existing regulations in South America
Last Updated
1 Oct, 2019
Agency
No DNA sequence from a different species
DNA sequence from a
different species
Countries
Targeted
deletions Targeted edits
Targeted allele
replacements
Targeted
insertions
Null
Segregant
Targeted Insertion
Argentina MAGYP No No No Yes No Yes
Chile SAG No No No Yes No Yes
Brazil CTNBio No No No Yes No Yes
Colombia ICA No No No Yes No Yes
Paraguay CONBIO No No No Yes No Yes
Honduras SENASA No No No Yes No Yes
Guatemala MAGA No No No Yes No Yes
13. IMPACT ON INNOVATORS´ PROFILE DIVERSIFICATON (ARGENTINA)
GM crops approved
Foreign SMEs
Multinational
Companies
National SMEs and
Research
institutions
Precision Breeding Products
Foreign SMEs
Multinational
Companies
National SMEs
and Research
institutions
Source: Whelan, Lema (2019).
14. MORE DIVERSITY IN IMPROVED SPECIES, MORE INNOVATION
(ARGENTINA)
Cereals
Oilseeds
Fiber crops
Fruits and
Vegetables
Ornamental
Livestock
Fish
Microorganisms
PRECISION BREEDING PRODUCTS
Cereals
Oilseeds
Fiber crops
Fruits and
Vegetables
APPROVED GMO (ONLY CROPS)
15. Impact of Public Policy-Lessons from the Past
The risk is to create another system of patchwork regulations and asynchronous
decisions repeating some of the mistakes of GMO regulation
1. Only the largest seed companies will have the financial capability to manage the
costs related to regulation.
2. Only a limited number of crops will benefit from breeding innovations.
3. The accessibility of these tools to the academic community, domestic agricultural
research organizations, and international agricultural research centers / CGIAR
centers will be restricted.
4. Global economic activity in the seed and grain trade will decrease.
5. Research cooperation and germplasm exchange for global breeding will become
more challenging.
6. Increasing productivity in a sustainable way will become more challenging.
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16. Conclusion
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Latest breeding methods provide
opportunities to target global
challenges as well as local needs and
can help us achieve sustainable
agricultural production and food
security.
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Notes de l'éditeur
This set of slides tells the plant breeding innovation story.
Slides 3-5 set the scene with the global challenges and explains the role of plant breeding innovation in overcoming them, supported by statistics.
Slides 6-7 explore the goals of plant breeding innovation and current definitions.
Slides 8-10 demonstrate the evolution of plant breeding methods and describe gene editing techniques.
Slides 11-14 examine the regulatory aspects in the context of the ISF Consistent Criteria paper
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