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Act on the Amendment of the Act on the Release of Genetically Modified Organisms into the Environment

avaldatud riigiteatajasEstonia· Riigikogu· ET

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14 November 2022

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23 January 2023

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The bill brings the law into line with the relevant EU regulation. The purpose of the regulation is to ensure greater transparency and to give citizens and researchers access to all information related to food safety that the company has submitted during the risk assessment process, except for information that is considered a trade secret. In order to improve transparency, all the regulations and directives of the European Union concerning food, feed and genetically modified organisms were revised and harmonized in the regulation data treated as business secrets. In the past, various legislations listed information that may or may not be a trade secret. The regulation amends the above-mentioned legislation, and henceforth all legislation related to food or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will list only the information that can be considered as a trade secret. The current law lists information that cannot be considered a trade secret. The amendment establishes a list of data that can be considered a trade secret. In other words, the amount of information that can be considered a trade secret becomes much narrower and more limited. This increases transparency, as all information that is not considered a trade secret is available to the public. The law also adds a requirement that, if there are international standard data formats, then the data must be submitted in such data formats in the application. This simplifies the comparison of different data and thus reduces the number of requests assessment time. It also reduces the need to request additional information from applicants.

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