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AMIS Market Monitor

last release: 7 March 2024

Policy Developments

  • On 11 January, the National Committee on Naming, Registration and Release of Crop Varieties of Nigeria approved 23 new varieties for commercial planting, including four varieties of genetically engineered "TELA" maize.
  • On 26 January, the European Commission allowed the commercialisation of food, feed, and other products from genetically engineered maize Bt11 x MIR162 x MIR604 x MON 89034 x 5307 x GA21 and thirty sub-combinations. Cultivation remains unauthorized.
  • On 14 February, the President of Mexico proposed banning genetically modified and transgenic maize for human consumption and for planting. The proposal follows a ban on GM maize imports in February 2023, and a decision by the US to initiate a dispute, later joined by Canada, under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) over the use of biotech maize in food (see AMIS Market Monitor, March 2023 and September 2023).