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After over ten years, Serbia still has not implemented changes to its Law on Genetically Engineered Organisms (GEOs) which was adopted in 2009.

South Africa has a robust and experienced regulatory system for genetically engineered (GE) products, which started with the publication of its “GMO” act in 1997.

Although Burma (also called Myanmar) does not yet have a comprehensive biosafety legislation, the final version of the National Biosafety Framework is completed and pending approval...

Hong Kong did not have any policy changes on regulating genetically engineered (GE) products in the past year.

The United Arab Emirates has passed a new law regulating the import, export, re-export, transit, trading, development, manufacture, production and transfer of food and agricultural products...

In most cases Japan’s Food Labeling Law does not require genetically engineered (GE) food labeling for highly processed food products that contain no foreign genetic material.

Public rejection of genetically engineered (GE) plants in Germany is widespread; there is no commercial GE crop production and practically no foods labeled as Genetically Modified Organisms...

On September 28, the European Commission (EC) approved Bayer’s herbicide tolerant soybean MON 87708 x MON 89788 x A5547-127, also known as XtendFlex.®

Croatia is a net food importer and the government policy is geared towards raising agricultural productivity and, to a lesser extent, controlling imports.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) allows permitted import of genetically engineered (GE) products based on the 2009 Law on “Genetically Modified Organisms” (“GMOs”) and its pertaining bylaws.

The Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) advised the Dutch government to phase out bioenergy and instead use biomass for high value applications.

From July 1, 2020, Japan will require all retailers to charge a fee for the use of plastic shopping bags, with the exception of biodegradable plastic bags...