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SPROUTS FROM BRUSSELS – Seeds & Crop Biodiversity
ECLLD Seed Policy Dialogue Register to the ECLLD Seed Policy Dialogue on the Commission study on options to reform the seed marketing rules, Thursday 20th May at 5pm! In order to discuss policy developments that affect crop diversity movements, the European...
Plant passport, comments from a german umbrella organization
Evaluation of Article 79 (Plant Passport) of the Plant Health Regulation 2016/2031 / EU Dear Madam, dear Sir, The umbrella organization for cultivated plants and livestock diversity is an association of organizations in German-speaking countries with the aim of...
ORGANIC MOVEMENT RAISES RED FLAG ON ASSUMED BENEFITS DEREGULATING NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES
BRUSSELS, 29 APRIL 2021 The organic food and farming movement criticizes the Commission’s plan to work on a new legal framework for plants derived from ‘New Genomic Techniques’. In a report published today, the EU Commission revealed they are ready to explore...
ARCHE NOAH on EU Seed Study: Right to Seeds must be honoured
DG SANTE publishes study on options to revise the legislation governing the production and marketing of seeds and other plant propagating material On April 29th DG SANTE published a study on options to update the seed marketing legislation. The study marks the...
SPROUTS FROM BRUSSELS – April 2021
Seeds & Crop Biodiversity in European Policy ECLLD Seed Policy Dialogue Register to the ECLLD Seed Policy Dialogue on new techniques of genetic modification on 29th April at 5pm! In order to discuss policy developments that affect crop diversity movements, the...
Joint Letter to the European Commission: A Common Vision for Cultivated Plant Diversity
Dear Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans,Dear Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides,Dear Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski,Dear Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, In the coming days...
First International Multi-stakeholder Symposium on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – webcast
Technical Consultation on in situ conservation and on-farm management of PGRFA, 29 - 30 March 2021 Recognizing the importance of crop diversity is crucial for achieving food security and improved nutrition. Failure...
DYNAVERSITY Final Conference
We would like to formally invite you to save the date for the Final Conference of the H2020 project DYNAVERSITY (DYNAmic seed networks for managing European diversity), which will take place virtually on Tuesday 20th April 2021, from 09:00...
Seed Networks
Politics, scientific research, knowledge, marketing, access to diversity: these are the 5 main areas in which seed networks operate. How? And what is the meaning of “farmer seed network”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6g31e5nLg This video is part of 10 video...
SEED POLICY DIALOGUES
Every month we dialogue with lawyer Fulya Batur, and Let’s Liberate Diversity! members regarding different topics around seeds. The webinars are in EN and FR.
Until now we spoke with Arche Noah, Inf’OGM, No patents on Seeds and the Global coalition of Open Source Seed Initiatives. Click for look at the YouTube registrations!
See you at the September Dialogue!
Sprouts from Brussel
Is a monthly newsletter wishes to inform the seeds and crop biodiversity movement across Europe on the policy developments which may have an impact on their activities.
If you wish to be part of the conversation, and receive this briefing, you will find it either separately or together with the monthly EC-LLD / News!
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International Plant Health Conference “Protecting Plant Health in a changing world”Expired
Nordic Heritage Grain SeminarExpired
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International Plant Health Conference “Protecting Plant Health in a changing world”Expired
Nordic Heritage Grain SeminarExpired
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International Plant Health Conference “Protecting Plant Health in a changing world”Expired
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SEED POLICY DIALOGUE – Patents and open-source approachesExpired
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– Legal Watch –
The legal watch is realised by the French Farmers’ seeds network, Réseau Semences Paysannes. Informations are related to seeds marketing, intellectual property rights, genetic ressources.
It is presented in French.
