Member

While we recognise that the impact on the organic sector is a small percentage—as the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, made clear—we raise this in particular: when you have a boundary between one farm and another, and one is organic, there are dangers that the organic farm may no longer be able to declare that it is organic, because under organic law, precision-bred organisms are described as GMOs. That is why GMOs have come up a wee bit in this debate. It is possible that the absence of proper labelling at this point in the supply chain will make meeting this obligation very difficult and even more expensive for organic farmers and businesses. This covers issues such as the national seed list and labelling on seed packets, which make it difficult for any farmer or grower, organic or otherwise, to identify precision-bred seeds.