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Why the European Union needs a national GMO opt-in mechanism

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  1. Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

    Dennis Eriksson

  2. Research Unit for Agricultural and Forestry Systems and Plant Health, National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinarian Research, Oeiras, Portugal

    Eugénia de Andrade

  3. University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Borut Bohanec

  4. Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde School of Governance, Roskilde, Denmark

    Sevasti Chatzopolou

  5. IBBR, National Research Council, Naples, Italy

    Roberto Defez

  6. Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University (LTH), Lund, Sweden

    Nélida Leiva Eriksson

  7. Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bio-Informatics, and Department of European, Faculty of Sciences, Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium

    Piet van der Meer

  8. Faculty of Science and Bio-Engineering Sciences, Free University Brussels (VUB), Belgium

    Piet van der Meer

  9. Law & Governance Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

    Bernd van der Meulen

  10. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Espoo, Finland

    Anneli Ritala

  11. Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvásár, Hungary

    László Sági

  12. Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Quedlinburg, Germany

    Joachim Schiemann

  13. Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

    Tomasz Twardowski

  14. Laboratory of Plant Biotechnologies, Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Vaněk

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Eriksson, D., de Andrade, E., Bohanec, B. et al. Why the European Union needs a national GMO opt-in mechanism. Nat Biotechnol 36, 18–19 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4051

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