Judgment_paragraph 44 · Confédération paysanne and Others v Premier ministre and Ministre de l’agriculture, de l’agroalimentaire et de la forêt (C-528/16)

44As regards, next, the context in which that exclusion is made, it should be noted that the EU legislature set out in recital 17 of Directive 2001/18 the conditions under which certain GMOs should be excluded from the scope of the directive.