"Stejarul" Research Centre for Biological Sciences, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences , Piatra Neamt, Romania.
GM Crops Food. 2021 Jan 1;12(1):18-24. doi: 10.1080/21645698.2020.1795525.
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.
自 1996 年至 2018 年，全球经基因改造的农作物种植面积增长了 113 倍，使生物科技作物成为过去几十年中采用速度最快的作物技术之一。在欧盟，只有两个国家仍在小面积种植一种转基因作物。此外，过去十年，封闭田间试验的通知数量大幅下降。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之际。对环境中存在转基因生物的担忧的欧盟公民比例从 30%（2002 年）下降到 19%（2011 年），而对食品或饮料中使用转基因成分的担忧程度从 63%（2005 年）下降到 27%（2019 年）。正如欧洲晴雨表所记录的，欧盟公民对环境和食品中转基因生物的接受程度稳步提高，这应该进一步为监管欧盟转基因作物测试和商业种植的法律框架的积极改变提供支持。
