What I said about GMOs is that once third countries submit applications for certain GMO events to get access to the EU, those applications first have to be evaluated—assessed—by the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA. Only once EFSA defines that the application is in accordance with our safety regulations does it go through the risk managers to the European Commission and the member states, and then the European Commission may make a proposal for accepting or approving the event. There is a comitology procedure, as we call it, and then the proposal is on the table and the member states, by a qualified majority, have to adopt the proposal in order to get it authorized.
On March 21st, 2018. See this statement in context.