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B100107/2026

P10_TA(2026)0041

European Parliament resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified soybean DBN-09004-6 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Genetically modified soybean DBN-09004-6

(D111472/02 – 2026/2523(RSP))

PE782.192

European Parliament resolution of 11 February 2026 on the draft Commission implementing decision authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified soybean DBN-09004-6 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (D111472/02 – 2026/2523(RSP))

The European Parliament,

– having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed, and in particular Article 7(3) and Article 19(3) thereof,

– having regard to the vote of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed referred to in Article 35 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, on 12 December 2025, at which no opinion was delivered, and the vote of the Appeal Committee on 27 January 2026, at which again no opinion was delivered,

– having regard to Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers,

– having regard to Rule 115(2) and (3) of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the motion for a resolution byof the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety,

A. whereas on 20 December 2019, Perseus BV, based in Belgium, submitted, on behalf of Beijing DaBeiNong Biotechnology Co., Ltd., based in China, an application to the national competent authority of Belgium for the placing on the market of foods, food ingredients and feed containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified soybean DBN-09004-6 (the ‘GM soybean’), in accordance with Articles 5 and 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003; whereas the application also covered the placing on the market of products containing or consisting of GM soybean for uses other than food and feed, with the exception of cultivation;

Q. whereas the One Health approach requires taking into account the interdependence between human, animal, plant and environmental health when assessing the long-term sustainability and safety of GMOs;

R. whereas this resolution will be almost the 100th resolution objecting to the authorisation of imports of GMO crops that the European Parliament has adopted;

1. Considers that draft Commission implementing decision exceeds the implementing powers provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003;