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As reading this Newsletter will show, the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is involved with a number of important projects. On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union rendered a judgment concluding that certain organisms obtained by mutagenesis are ‘genetically modified organisms’ within the meaning of EU legislation. It appears that, as a result of the judgment, more plant breeding techniques will fall under the rules that govern genetically modified organisms and will thus be subject to more detailed regulatory scrutiny. EU breeders’ organisations and