ABSTRACT

Since 1996 till 2018, the global area cultivated with GM crops has increased 113-fold, making biotech crops one of the fastest adopted crop technology in the past decades. In the European Union, only two countries still cultivate one available transgenic crop event on minor hectarage. Moreover, the number of notifications for confined field trials has dramatically dropped in the last decade. All these are happening while the EU legislation on GM crops has come under severe criticism. The percentage of EU citizens concerned about the presence of GMOs in the environment has decreased from 30% (in 2002) to 19% (in 2011), while the level of concern about the use of GM ingredients in food or drinks has decreased from 63% (in 2005) to 27% (in 2019). The steadily increasing acceptance of the EU citizens of GMOs in the environment and food, as it was recorded by Eurobarometers, should additionally ease the way and support a positive change of the legal framework that regulates the GM crops’ testing and commercial cultivation in the EU.

摘要

从 1996 年到 2018 年，全球转基因作物种植面积增加了 113 倍，使转基因作物成为过去几十年中采用最快的作物技术之一。在欧盟，只有两个国家仍然在小公顷土地上种植一种可用的转基因作物。此外，在过去十年中，密闭现场试验的通知数量急剧下降。所有这些都发生在欧盟关于转基因作物的立法受到严厉批评的时候。欧盟公民关注环境中存在转基因生物的比例从 30%（2002 年）下降到 19%（2011 年），而对在食品或饮料中使用转基因成分的担忧程度从 63 %（2005 年）到 27%（2019 年）。欧盟公民对环境和食品中转基因生物的接受度不断提高，