The Philippine Supreme Court has “temporarily” prohibited the approval of any application for the contained use, testing, propagation, commercialisation and importation of genetically modified organisms until a new administrative order is promulgated. The Court has invalidated the Department of Agriculture’s Administrative Order (DAO) No 08-2002 (DAO8), which contained rules for regulating the use of GMOs, for being insufficient in guaranteeing compliance with international biosafety standards. The order thus expands the 2013 order by the Philippine Court of Appeal to halt field trials of GM insect-resistant Bt aubergines. Field trials on the GM lines were approved in 2011.
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