Dear all
we had a nice day in Den Haag with hand over and workshop an even media reports. It was great work of Oxfam, Grietje and also very good support from Bionext /Maaike.
Plantum and poltical decision makers (such as from Ag Minister) joined the workshop, it seems like we moved things ahead.
Now we have to look forward.
Berlin would be next week, we have some support for our hand over on 25 May, but not a final confirmation. It might take us till Monday to find out. Please, AbL, GeN, FOE and all others which might be ready to support, stay alert. In case we will need around 10 persons.
For Brussels, there is some confusion. It looks like, the 6 of July is after the day the EU Commission wants to publish its proposal on NGT. If this is the case (still not sure, now it seems the 5 of July is planned) we should not try to talk about patent on conventional breeding. For our trip we should find a date before the NGT proposal comes up. This is something I still have to sort out.
Cheers
Christoph