The EU is about to relax its oversight of genetically modified organisms, focusing on plants and products that are obtained through certain new genomic techniques. The aim is to promote new genomic techniques as an innovative technology and employing it as a means to transform agriculture to sustainability. The present contribution describes and evaluates the planned reform. It discusses whether standards of legal certainty and legitimacy are met, how environmental side-effects are taken into account, how sustainability goals are integrated, what socio-economic effects are to be expected, and whether higher rank law is respected. As several shortcomings are found an alternative approach is submitted that combines a certain easing of administrative oversight with better integration of sustainability goals. Auspices for organic and conventional GMO-free agriculture are also sketched out.

欧盟即将放松对转基因生物的监管，重点关注通过某些新基因组技术获得的植物和产品。其目的是推广新的基因组技术作为一种创新技术，并将其用作将农业转变为可持续发展的手段。本文稿描述并评估了计划中的改革。它讨论了是否满足法律确定性和合法性标准、如何考虑环境副作用、如何整合可持续发展目标、预期产生什么社会经济影响以及是否尊重更高级别的法律。由于发现了一些缺点，因此提出了一种替代方法，该方法将一定程度的行政监督放松与更好地整合可持续发展目标相结合。还概述了对有机和传统非转基因农业的支持。