Additional advice on import and processing of GM oilseed rape MON88302
- Following the publication of EFSA’s scientific opinion on the application for the renewal of the market authorization for import and processing of genetically modified (GM) oilseed rape MON88302, COGEM has been asked whether COGEM’s remarks on the application were sufficiently answered by EFSA;
- The COGEM previously advised that the monitoring plan for MON88302 needed to be adapted before the market authorisation could be renewed;
- The EFSA did not take COGEM’s concerns into account in its recently published opinion on the GM oilseed rape, and the monitoring plan has not been modified;
- Therefore, COGEM’s remains of the opinion that monitoring along transport routes and transshipment areas should be explicitly included in the PMEM plan for MON88302 before the authorisation is renewed.