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Application for membership
by Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org 13 May '20

13 May '20

Dear all, following Christophs email, here are some infos on the application process for membership for No patents on seeds! as established in our Statute and Rules of Procedure: - an application has to be supported by two members of the organization (we havent established a formal process for that) - Johanna/Christoph sends application form to new organization - application form is checked by board in regards to formalities - application is put to vote by the members either via email or at the Meeting of Members. Applications have to be accepted by a two-thirds majority. This process applies both for our current members wanting to become members as organizations (not private persons), that is ARCHE NOAH, SWISSAID and ProSpecieRara as well as for the Danish Seed Savers. All 4 application forms have been sent to the Board who will continue the process asap. Please find below the relevant texts from our Statute and Rules of Procedure. Best, Johanna Statute § 3 Nr. 2 Applicants for membership must submit a written application, which will be forwarded to the members after a formal inspection. The application must be supported by two members of the Organization. The admission is approved by a two-thirds majority vote by the members. § 3 Nr. 3 In addition to § 3 Nr. 2, the admission of a new member can be approved by electronic means in between general meetings. Members will be informed about applications and the quorum. Members will then submit their decision to the Management Board within four weeks. The admission is approved by a two-thirds majority vote by the members. Otherwise, the provisions of section 3 apply. Rules of Procedure: Potential members must complete the form Application for Membership in the organization No Patents on Seeds!. The form will be provided by the organization upon request.

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workflow, updates etc, doodle for phone conference, new organsiations
by Christoph Then 11 May '20

11 May '20

Dear all just some short update on current activities beyond the planned media work: I will try to meet our ministry of Justice tomorrow. Georg and Annemarie from AbL will also take part. We will try to get some impression what they think about the process in general and will inform you. This also might cause further changes in our draft media release. After the meeting I also will come back to draft letters to the Members of the Admin Council (also asking for further meetings). I still have to write letters to some of your organisations regarding funding for 2020. However, before doing so, I wanted to get the final version of the account overview from Gen-ethical Network for first half of the year 2019, which will be sent along with the letter. I will remind them again that they promised to send. By the way: I welcome Gudula from the Gen ethical network as introduced by Judith just recently. I will add her to the mailing list. We still have to manage some technicalities around the changes in the statutes, but I would like to wait till we have a full list of members of the Board. Ruth and Katherine are working on it. Thanks!! Johanna asked about interest in having a phone conference (or zoom conference) in May or June... I think this would be a good idea. Cheers Christoph PS regarding the issue of some organisations want to become member as juridical bodies, I handed over to Johanna and the Board. I guess they will inform Arche Noah and SWISSAID and ProSpecie (any other?) that this process is finalised. However, this does not mean that any new organisations will become members. We now have a request from Danish Seed Savers to become a member (thanks a lot to Erling!). I guess this process will follow the statutes and internal rules for procedure. I asked Johanna to provide us with a check-list.

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first draft PRs on the decision of the Enlarged Board od Appeal
by Christoph Then 11 May '20

11 May '20

der all, please see first drafts in En. I think we can use the same examples for patent applications in both cases (Yes and No), while the content of the PR has to adapted to the decision in many other details. please send your comment till Thursday. thanks! Christoph

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parental leave representative to mailinglist
by judith.dueesberg＠gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de 05 May '20

05 May '20

Dear people, I would like to ask you to add my parental leave representative Gudula Madsen with her e-mail (gudula.madsen(a)gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de) address to the NPOS mailing list. To avoid receiving my absence note every week, it would be helpful to take my address off the mailing list until I start working at GeN again in May 2021. Kind regards and successful work Judith Düesberg -- Judith Düesberg Gen-ethisches Netzwerk (GeN) Stephanstraße 13, 10559 Berlin 030 - 685 70 73 www.gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de Twitter: @GeNetzwerk Aktueller GID zum Thema: +++ Gesundheit in der Krise – Aktuelle Herausforderungen im Gesundheitssystem+++

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problems with mailing list is fixed
by Christoph Then 04 May '20

04 May '20

Now Fulya is on board.

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Now, after the report is published ..
by Christoph Then 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Dear all, this was hard work, but we managed a as team very well. Thanks to you all! I would not expect media many reports (although we tried in Germany) but the main target group for our work under Corona can not be just journalists. Good news: We already received E-Mail from German Parliament that they will use the report to restart to debate, they might try to organise an online conference... let us see. But this is the direction we now have to take: We have to run a wake up call before the Enlarged Board publishes its decision. (1) Please use the report as much as you can to inform your parliament, government, experts. (2) Johanna could develop a series of postings in social media, using the 11 examples. (3) we also have to prepare media communication for the upcoming decision of the Enlarged Board (4) we have to consider to run another push (maybe using new examples) before the meeting of the AC in June (I guess there will be some gathering, maybe just online). (5) we could discuss that our office tries to get in contact directly with governments / national experts in countries were we do not have a representative (Italy? France? Spain? Poland? others?). I will draft a letter that will be sent to the Members of the AC next week. However in some countries we might need more activities. In addition I now will try to sort out some organisatorial issues, also together with the Board, which I did not have the time yet. I also will prepare letters to call for the outstanding funding. I also was asked to add Fulya (working with Arche Noah before) to the list which is working on a EU educational project with NGOs. I would agree. Maybe Fulya can send some more informations. So let us congratulate each other, I think we did a good job under difficult conditions and now can look forward to achieve our goals. do we need a phone call in May? Cheers Christoph

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some media response in German
by Christoph Then 26 Apr '20

26 Apr '20

just came across - not much, but better than nothing... https://www.topagrar.com/acker/news/umweltschuetzer-kritisieren-patentanmel… https://www.food-monitor.de/2020/04/elf-gruende-warum-europa-patente-auf-pf…

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Today's press release / Report 2020
by Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

Dear all, today's press release has been sent out and the report is published. Thank you very much to all of you who cooperated with the new report! You can find the press release <https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/node/628> and the report <https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/background/publications> on our homepage. I posted as well on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds> and Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed> - please share! Still to come: the Danish version of the report and a French summary of the report. Best, Johanna Johanna ECKHARDT Project Coordination Tel. +43 680 21 26 343 <mailto:johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org> johanna.eckhardt(a)no-patents-on-seeds.org NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! <http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/> www.no-patents-on-seeds.org <http://www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds> www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds <http://www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed> www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed

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englisch version - very final draft
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

some more small corrections looks like we are done.

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Deutsche Version des Berichtes - finaler Draft
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

hoffe, das passt so ...

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