Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Dr. Ewen Mullins:

That is exactly it. The breeding process is accelerated. The Commission has been very clear that category 1 is equivalent to the transfer of genetic material from a compatible species, such as wild potato to conventional potato or wild barley to conventional barley, for example. It is not about material being transferred from daffodil into wheat, something that will never happen naturally.