Dear all
please see attached a draft resolution for the European Parliament. I am trying to reach out for the Greens and as soon as they respond (or not respond), I also will inform some Social Democrats.
I had a look onto the previous resolutions and took over some elements. I added the need for definition of essentially biological processes and limiting scope of patents.
I also added two procedural issues, based on Article 4(a) of the EPC (conference of ministers every five years) and Article 16 of the EU directive (annual reports).
To me it looks important that the EP gets aware of the risk that CRISPR industry will take over conventional breeding if patents on random mutations are not stopped. This is also an issue for the Green Deal.
please come back to me with your first comments if needed till Wednesday.
thanks,
Christoph