24 January 2019 / No Patents on Seeds! together with more than 40 other organisations today published an international appeal to the president of the European Patent Office (EPO), António Campinos. The president, who is Portuguese, is being asked to halt all pending patent applications on plants and animals derived from conventional breeding. These patents cover vegetables, including broccoli and tomatoes. Companies such as Bayer and Syngenta want to monopolise the breeding of the plants and food derived thereof through the misuse of patents. In December 2018 the EPO declared that these patents could be allowed, contrary to a decision made in 2017 by the governments of its 38 contracting states saying that they were prohibited.
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Call for an immediate moratorium of patents on plants and animal
Read More"The collective rights of farmers to their seeds" (November 2018)This document compiles the elements that could enable those who wish to do so to engage in national and regional advocacy for farmer seeds in West Africa.
Read MoreSEED is pleased to send you the first newsletter of the year. You will find an overview of upcoming activities, information on where and when to find SEED seeds and how to further support SEED's cause.
Read MoreCommission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1519 of 9 October 2018 amending Implementing Decision 2014/150/EU on the organisation of a temporary experiment providing for certain derogations for the marketing of populations of the plant species wheat, barley, oats and maize under Council Directive 66/402/EEC (notified under document C(2018) 5470) (Text with EEA relevance).
Read MoreWe are pleased to inform you that the final Activity report for LINKAGES has been published online.
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The members of EC-LLD are the following organizations:
- the Scottish Crofting Federation (Scotland)
- Pro Specie Rara (Swizerland)
- Réseau Semences Paysannes (France)
- BEDE (France)
- Red de Semillas “ Resembrando e Intercambiando” (Spain)
- Centro Internazionale Crocevia - CIC (Italy)
- Rete Semi Rurali (Italy)
- Dachverband Kulturpflanzen- und Nutztiervielfalt e. V. Dachverband (Germany)
- SEED (Luxembourg)
- Le Réseau Meuse-Rhin-Moselle (RMRM) (Belgiun)
- AEGILOPS (Greece)
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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 but you can find out English version on internet with the name of the topic
on EU topics
- Conseil de l’UE : Information de la délégation des Pays-Bas à propos de la décision de la Chambre de recours technique de l’Office européen des brevets sur la brevetabilité des plantes issues de procédés essentiellement biologiques
- Catalogue commun des variétés des espèces de légumes — Deuxième complément à la trente-septième édition intégrale, JOUE C 98/1 du 14.3.2019
- Règlement d’exécution (UE) 2019/66 de la Commission du 16 janvier 2019 relatif à des règles établissant des modalités uniformes pour la réalisation des contrôles officiels sur les végétaux, produits végétaux et autres objets, destinés à vérifier le respect des règles de l’Union relatives aux mesures de protection contre les organismes nuisibles aux végétaux applicables à ces marchandises, JOUE L 15/1 du 17.1.2019
- Catalogue commun des variétés des espèces agricoles — deuxième complément à la trente-septième édition intégrale, JOUE C 81 du 04.03.2019
- Parlement européen : Proposition de résolution de Mireille D’Ornano sur la promotion de l’agroécologie et de l’agroforesterie
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