It may decide that until the technology is improved we will have no release and no field trials. Or it may try and draw some ultimately self-defeating rules about when is a field trial alright and when is a field trial not alright. Which is basically what it tried to do with the existing moratorium. It didn't add up scientifically. I've got reasonable hope that we will end up deciding that for some quite substantial period, at which stage we may need to review it, New Zealand should not release genetically engineered organisms into the environment.
Genetic engineering is part of a different view of the future of farming from what organics is.
Genetic engineering as it exists so far, and probably for the foreseeable future, is targeted at commodity crops, not niche crops. It is targeted at crops where the only two really important factors are quantity and price. You want to produce as much as possible and the market wants to pay as little as possible for it. You want to keep your inputs down and your outputs up. It's a completely different marketing strategy and a completely different mind set from what I would like to see New Zealand move into which is high value, rather than high volume crops, for discerning markets who are prepared to pay for quality.