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The CMA is today inviting views on its proposals for how the newly created Office for the Internal Market (OIM) is expected to work.

GENE EDITING involves accentuating or suppressing genes withn an organisms own natural genetic sequence PERMISSION for gene editing in agriculture is back on the political agenda, following the launch of a Defra consultation on a potential change in UK law to allow the technology into the food chain. Under current European law, Gene Editing is lumped together with Genetic Modification, and as such is excluded from use in producing novel crop plants and livestock. Defra is touting the GE c...

Because of the Internal Market Bill, Scotland will have to allow the sale of genetically edited food if England decides to change its laws SCOTLAND may soon be “forced to accept the marketing, sale and free circulation” of genetically modified food as England looks to change its own laws in the area post-Brexit, the Scottish Government has warned. The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today launched a public consultation on the use of gene editing on ...

UK Common Frameworks From: Contents Following the UK’s exit from the European Union, the UK Government is working jointly with the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to ensure a common approach is taken where needed on policy areas where powers are returning / have returned from the EU and which intersect with devolved competence, by developing UK Common Frameworks. Frameworks are being developed in line with the principles for common framew...