To coincide with a EU Commission conference in Brussels, with the EU Parliament and EU Council, to explain the package “smarter rules for safer food”, most of Europe’s largest seed organizations have come together to sign a joint statement opposing many important aspects of this legislation package, as it relates to Plant Reproductive Material.
Signatories of this JOINT STATEMENT:
- Aegilops Network for Biodiversity and Ecology In Agriculture, Greece (www.aegilops.gr)
- Agrolink, Bulgaria (www.agrolink.org)
- Arche Noah, Seed Savers Assocation in Central Europe (www.arche-noah.at)
- A Seed Europe (Action for Solidarity, Environment, Equality and Diversity) (www.aseed.net)
- Bifurcated Carrots, The Netherlands (bifurcatedcarrots.eu)
- Campaign for Seed Sovereignty, Europe (www.seed-sovereignty.org | www.saatgutkampagne.org)
- Danish Seed Savers (www.froesamlerne.dk)
- Dachverband Kulturpflanzen- und Nutztiervielfalt Deutschland (www.kulturpflanzen-nutztiervielfalt.org)
- Eco Ruralis, Romania (www.ecoruralis.ro)
- Föreningen Sesam, the Swedish society for seed propagation and protection of cultural plants (www.foreningensesam.se)
- GAIA – Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental, Portugal (www.gaia.org.pt)
- Garden Organic – the national charity for organic growing, United Kingdom (www.gardenorganic.org.uk)
- Global 2000, Austria (http://www.global2000.at)
- GNAG – Green network of activist groups, Croatia (www.zmag.hr)
- Irish Seed Savers Association (www.irishseedsavers.ie)
- Latvijas Zemes draugi (Friends of the Earth Latvia) – (www.zemesdraugi.lv/)
- MPI, Portugal (www.mpica.info)
- ÖBV – Via Campesina Austria (www.viacampesina.at)
- Peliti, Greece (www.peliti.gr)
- Quercus, Portugal (www.quercus.pt)
- Varuhi semen – Društvo za ohranjanje biotske pestrosti kulturnih rastlin, Slovenia (www.semenska.org)
Its a pity they didn’t get someone to correct the English.
Several of us tried Madeline! You should have seen where we started from.