At BioSpain 2023, several panels discussed the Spanish EU Presidency's goal of setting the course for the internationally competitive use of biotechnology in drug development, plant breeding and food production through a new non-bureaucratic legal framework. Thirty pre-selected start-ups demonstrated new approaches to make drug development more effective and to decarbonise food and industrial production. Experts agreed that the reform of EU pharmaceutical legislation and deregulation of new genomic techniques in plant breeding are crucial for EU biotech companies to catch up with leading biotech centres such as in the US and China.

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[European Biotechnology News, 2023.10.3, https://european-biotechnology.com/up-to-date/latest-news/news/spain-set-to-unveil-the-potential-of-the-biologisation-of-medicine-and-food-production.html]