Member

I want to declare an interest. When one looks at the register, one will see that I am an adviser to Low Associates, which is a Brussels-based company. In that context, that company has been concerned with promoting innovation in the European Union and involved in the new genomic techniques regulation, which the European Commission published in July 2023, if I remember correctly. In that context, for example, I chaired a meeting between English and Polish farmers back in December in anticipation of the Polish presidency, and of course it was an absolutely fascinating discussion. The Polish farmers were really interested and hopeful for the opportunity to benefit from increased wheat yields and things such as drought-resistant crops and precision-bred plants. Of course, we call it precision breeding in the European Union; they would call them new genomic techniques—NGTs.