A New Seed Law will go before the EU commissioners on May 6th 2013.
The Regulation on Marketing of Plant Reproductive Material law will mean no seed can be sold, or potentially even given for free to anyone in the EU unless that seed is already registered on the EU Plant List as an 'approved' variety.
This would outlaw heritage seeds, that are historical and natural seeds which have not been manufactured into hybrids. They produce natural plants that our ancestors would have grown.
This new regulation threatens farmers' varieties and rare varieties, stoping diversity and could bring distinction to the many seeds that will not be on the EU list.
Small-scale farmers and local producers will be harmed as industrial seed companies extend their dominance and reap the benefits.
Sign the Avaaz petition HERE calling for the Law to be amended.
A more radical petition: We will not comply! can be signed HERE.
Visit: www.open-seeds.org/bad-seed-law/#Custom to find email addresses of the decision makers and a template letter that you can email to them. Send an email to the three EU directorates and each decision member of the commission to fight against this strict law.
You can also email your MEP with a letter, addresses can be found on www.open-seed.org/bad-seed-law/#
Please share on Facebook and on Twitter with #saveseed
The Directorate General of the EU for Sanitary and Consumer affairs (DG SANCO) has been working towards this law for years with the lobbying of the gloablised agricultural seed industry. Two other directorates oppose the law and so DG SANCO are taking the new law directly to the Commission on May 6th.
More resources
'Occupy the seed!' Vandana's Call for Seed Freedom and Free Seed Saving eBook
thanks for your work - but please simplify guidelines
2.5.2013
Hi,
I just couldn´t make any sense of the mailing guidelines in your links above (to send e-mails to the descision makers) !!! Far, far too complicated ... I´m sure you could make it clearer.
I´m happy there was Avaaz. Signed!
Yours,
Tosha
so basically what i get from
so basically what i get from this is, they're going to force us to buy/sell seeds illegally. i don't foresee this going over well. and i don't think its a good idea due to the fact that organic farmers, and those people who grow their little family gardens are going to be outraged. the whole point of being organic is not to have these kinds of things shoved down our throats. >.< better get your seeds in a swift manner!
EU telling us what to do again
Once again we have the EU sticking it's boot in and we will roll over and take it up the backside again. It's time we got out of Europe.
Petition against new Seeds law.
Hello @All
There's an online petition from Openpetition.de with just over 74000 signings to stop this law.
The petition needs 100000 signings to be acknowledged be Brussels. But we only have 2-3 days left zu get the remaining 26000 signings.
PLEASE HELP!
Sign this petition and spread the word.
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/saatgutvielfalt-in-gefahr-gegen-eine-eu-saatgutverordnung-zum-nutzen-der-saatgut-industrie