Anne Bradley clarified this point and said that GM technology is biotechnology and marker assisted breeding using genomics is biotechnology too. The Monsanto scientists are right, GM is an obsolete practice nowadays. Genomics is much less risky. By using marker-assisted breeding, genes of interest can be tracked as they are passed on in successive generations, speeding up breeding programmes considerably. Genetic instability renders them too risky economically and it is time to back off and move on.
Genomics is the only way forward for plant biotechnology.
If the commission is to be of any value, then it must come to terms with this and stop the trials, which are a drain on public resources as well as hazardous. Among other things, it must arrange 'clean up' operations to decontaminate affected land.