Dear Christoph,

 

I helped to significantly re-write the letter in light of your feedback, and we have signed as Arche Noah. There will be a joint press release in Austria in Monday, including with IG Saatgut.

 

Did you look at the final version? If there are an factual errors in it, please let me know. It is too late to change this text, but it would be good for the future. I think it would be good if NPOS signs given our expertise on the issue: The letter does focus on patents on GMOs, but it draws heavily on our analysis of the negative impact of patents, so I do see it as success for us that we have been raising awareness of the patent issue more generally. And with the event on Wednesday we are also participating in the GMO debate.

 

Best,
Katherine

 

Von: Npos_2018 <npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> Im Auftrag von Christoph Then
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2023 10:19
An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de
Betreff: [Npos_2018] Fwd: [New-gm-eur] Sign TODAY: [Sign on till June 29th] new-GMO patent letter to agriculture ministers

 

Dear all

please see this intitiative, you may want to sign. There are some details which may need correction and also there is strong link to deregulation of NGTs.

I tried out those out these issues beforehand, but was not able to. So I suggest, also due to the short timeline, No Patents on Seeds! will not sign as coalition.

Cheers

Christoph

 



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[New-gm-eur] Sign TODAY: [Sign on till June 29th] new-GMO patent letter to agriculture ministers

Datum:

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:05:13 +0200

Von:

Brigitte Reisenberger <brigitte.reisenberger@global2000.at>

An:

new-gm-eur@lists.corporateeurope.org

 

Dear all,

please still sign the letter today :) It is 60 signatories as of this morning - maybe we can get it to 100 still?

As we heard from the NGO-Timmermans meeting a few days ago: the issue of patents is a hot  and important one that might make the difference!

The letter is now proofread (thanks Claire) and will be sent on Monday 3rd in the morning (thanks to IFOAM).

Two sharables for Social Media, a draft press release (or for you other channels)  will be ready for you this afternoon.

Thanks a lot for all your efforts!

All best

Brigitte 

Am 26.06.23 um 13:27 schrieb Brigitte Reisenberger:

Dear all,

a kind reminder for you to sign our letter! There might be still an addition to the letter-text to also refer to farmers rights.

also: in case you did not see yet and event next week ion July 6th on patents and New GMOs. https://www.martin-haeusling.eu/termine/3015-patents-and-new-genomic-techniques-do-not-risk-the-future-of-our-seeds.html
I believe it has not been circulated yet via this list.

All best

Brigitte

Am 22.06.23 um 10:34 schrieb Brigitte Reisenberger:

Dear all,

 

the long awaited patent-new -GMO-letter is finalized! thanks to Arche Noah, IFOAM, ECVC, ABL, CEO, Arbeiterkammer GM-Watch, FOE-E and others for commenting and working on it along the way! I do hope you are satisfied with the result. Our aim for the letter is: formost to alert our agriculture ministers that it is very dangerous to push for NGT-deregulation - for many reasons - but also because this will lead to a flood of patented seeds!! We believe from a strategic point this argument provides a good chance for us to divert the agriculture ministers from their path towards NGT-deregulation.

 

1) Sign on to Europe-wide letter to all european agriculture ministers
The letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x2wyOjMpYuY1HCOK-cFvHwNJ9j5265MfAWRiOsedPqc/edit?usp=sharing

The draft was shared for commenting via our email-list and is closed now; Only if you have extremely important additions - that do not alter the main content - please contact me: brigitte.reisenberger@global2000.at

Please sign here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KDC9LMaQn4P80CffU2kPu2WgqaF19eCv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114458597816161214366&rtpof=true&sd=true
Add your organisations name, your logo and your corresponding email (will not be published!)

Sign on will be closed on June 29 evening - 6 p.m.

 

2) Help us get the correct Name/Email of your agriculture minister:
Please check/add here and let us know if we have the correct Email: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W1cYPUUUNkWGtppZsLScaJ3TJvLRfmN1/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114458597816161214366&rtpof=true&sd=true

 

4) Additional National Letters to your minister: To strengthen our impact it would be good if you additionally are able to send a strong message to your agriculture minister - in your own language. We ask and invite you to also translate (and adapt to you national context where needed!) the letter and additionally send it on July 3rd (or the days after) to your agriculture minister (and relevant people in your ministry). You can send it as a national coalition or as individual organisations, you can attach the english pdf-letter (we will send it once the sign-on is finished) and write an email in your language or create your own language version of the letter and add your national logos... it is really up to you how you want to approach it!

 

5) Publication/Communication on July 3rd to all agriculture ministers
Send out will happen on July 3rd to all ministers plus AGRI-Commissioner, DG Agri, DG Grow, (we still debate who from the brussels-based organisations could send it)

For July 3rd we will prepare some key messages for twitter and social media and also shareables/visuals and a press release for you to adapt/use. We hope to be able to share this with you latest on June 30th.

 

Thank you for your support and for sharing this initiative also in your (national) networks and allies!

As more organisations are signing as more weight the letter will get.

 

All best

Brigitte

 

 

 

 

 

Mag.a Brigitte Reisenberger
Campaignerin Landwirtschaft/Gentechnik

mobil: +43 699 142000 69
mail: brigitte.reisenberger@global2000.at

GLOBAL 2000 - Friends of the Earth Austria
Neustiftgasse 36 / A-1070 Wien

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-- 
Mag.a Brigitte Reisenberger
Campaignerin Landwirtschaft/Gentechnik
 
 
mobil: +43 699 142000 69
mail: brigitte.reisenberger@global2000.at
 
GLOBAL 2000 - Friends of the Earth Austria
Neustiftgasse 36 / A-1070 Wien
 
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Gift für die Biene. Gift für dich.
Beenden wir die toxische Beziehung.
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