EU-SAGE is of the opinion that the European Commission’s regulatory proposal is an important step in creating a proportionate regulatory environment that would enable the use of genome-edited crops for sustainable agriculture. It addresses two of the main concerns about the current EU GMO legislation: (1) the fact that under the current GMO legislation it is virtually impossible to get a crop authorized for cultivation, and (2) the regulatory discrimination of plants with targeted edits that similarly occur in conventionally bred plants.