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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (D117576/01 – 2026/2880(RSP))

On the draft Commission implementing decision renewing the authorisation for placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified soybean MON 87769 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council

B-10-2026-0469

Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Sirpa Pietikäinen, Biljana Borzan, Martin Häusling, Anja Hazekamp

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Parliament's resolution objects to the draft Commission implementing decision renewing the authorisation of genetically modified soybean MON 87769 for food and feed. It considers the draft decision exceeds the Commission's implementing powers and is incompatible with the aim of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003. It calls on the Commission to withdraw the draft and not to renew the authorisation, citing risks, environmental impacts and insufficient long-term evidence. It asks for an updated nutritional and compositional assessment, current risk-assessment methods, stronger post-market monitoring and use of the precautionary principle. It calls for a legislative proposal to reform the GMO decision-making procedure.

Key points

  1. Parliament considers the draft Commission implementing decision exceeds the implementing powers provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.
  2. It considers the draft decision incompatible with the aim of ensuring a high level of protection of human and animal health, the environment and consumer interests, in line with the precautionary principle.
  3. It calls on the Commission to withdraw its draft implementing decision.
  4. It calls on the Commission not to renew the authorisation of the GM soybean due to associated risks, environmental impacts and insufficient long-term evidence, in line with the One Health approach.
  5. Before any renewal, it asks for an updated assessment of nutritional and compositional changes, including the altered fatty acid profile, based on realistic consumption patterns and long-term exposure.
  6. It asks that the assessment use relevant scientific developments and current risk-assessment methodologies, including appropriate statistical methods for compositional differences.
  7. It calls for stronger post-market monitoring, systematic data on actual imports, uses and consumption in the Union, and a mechanism to review the authorisation if exposure differs from assumptions.
  8. Where scientific uncertainties on long-term nutritional effects cannot be resolved, it calls for the precautionary principle and no renewal until they are addressed.
  9. It calls on the Commission to submit without delay a legislative proposal to reform the GMO decision-making procedure, responding to Parliament's objections and the lack of qualified majority among member states.

Who is affected

  • The Commission: asked to withdraw the draft decision, not renew the authorisation and propose a reform of the GMO decision-making procedure.
  • The authorisation holder and operators placing GM soybean MON 87769 products on the market: the renewal they seek is opposed.
  • Member states: their governments and parliaments receive the resolution; the text notes no qualified majority was reached in the Standing Committee.

Figures and deadlines

  • 9 September 2026: vote of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed at which no opinion was delivered.
  • 10 December 2025: date the European Food Safety Authority adopted its opinion; published on 19 January 2026.
  • 24 April 2015: date of Commission Implementing Decision 2015/686, which authorised the original placing on the market.
  • 11 March 2024: date the European Food Safety Authority received the renewal application.
  • 19 January 2026: date the European Food Safety Authority adopted its scientific opinion on the renewal application.
  • 2014: year of the original risk assessment.
  • 2006 and 2011: years of the European Food Safety Authority guidance whose statistical methods are discussed.

Legal basis: Article 11(3) and Article 23(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.