http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/european-court-ruling-raises-hurdles-crispr-crops

Crop researchers worry a new European court ruling could complicate efforts to move gene-edited crops from the lab to the field.

Hopes for an easier regulatory road for genetic engineering in European agriculture were dashed today by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In a closely watched decision, the court ruled that plants created with new gene-editing techniques that don’t involve transferring genes between organisms—such as CRISPR—must go through the same lengthy approval process as traditional transgenic plants.