Slides summarising the new EU seed marketing Regulation: legal recognition for conservation networks and diverse varieties, opportunities for seed exchange and non-professional sales, but continued administrative burdens and species-specific limits.
conservation varieties
Seeds, Access & Rules: policy and legal frameworks for Community Seed Banks – CSB Lab Workshop 3 (video)
Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Video of a workshop (25 Mar 2026) on international and EU seed laws and what they mean for Community Seed Banks, covering the Treaty/SMTA, Nagoya, UPOV, EU seed marketing reform, conservation varieties and practical implications.
Seed Markets, Agroecology and the Right to Food: Insights From an Advocacy Journey on the EU Seed Marketing Reform
Brochure (June 2025) by Brot für die Welt and HEKS/EPER linking the EU seed marketing reform to the right to food; analyses Commission proposal and Parliament position, and recommends measures to protect farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity.
Bureaucracy Against Biodiversity: How New Administrative Burdens in the EU PRM-Regulation Could Tighten Agro-Chemical Control Over Our Fields and Plates
ARCHE NOAH (May 2025) finds the proposed EU PRM Regulation would impose disproportionate administrative and testing burdens on small seed producers, risking loss of varieties and business closures; calls for exemptions and proportional rules.
