The associated effort and stigmatization of such plants and products thus undermine the intention of the EU Commission’s draft regulation, which aims to enable the application of new breeding methods in plant breeding. Falk sees the Parliament’s addressing of the issue of “protection of intellectual property” and the strengthening of plant variety protection as the primary protective law in plant breeding. In the upcoming trilogues between the Commission, Parliament and Council, German plant breeding hopes for a speedy agreement leading to evidence-based legislation for new genomic techniques in the EU.