Hungary: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

Hungary is one of the strongest opponents of transgenic engineering. Maintaining the country’s GE-free status remains a government priority. However, Hungary’s scientific, research, and breeding institutions are speaking out in support of genome editing. In the case of an enabling legislative environment in the EU, the country would be open to adopting innovative, non-transgenic biotechnologies and their products, but only with strong guarantees: health and environmental risk assessments, and a mandatory labeling system.