Dear all
please see new draft backgrounder I suggest to use for lobbying in the EU.
As you might know, end of April the plenary of the EU Parliament is supposed to vote on the PRM regulation. We nearly got a majority in the vote on PRM in the Envi Committee for our proposal to introduce a similar wording as it is used in the Austrian law. Now we have a chance to gain a majority for changing the wording of Art. 2.2 of the EU patent directive, which would be the best (only?) way to achieve legal certainty.
As shown by the results from patent research in 2023, there is an increasing number of patents on tomato plants with resistance to the 'Jordan Virus'. I shortly summarized these findings in a table an tried to generate a text that may help us to bring these findings to the attention of the EU Parliament. We now have 22 international patent applications from ten companies. a true nightmare.
Please see attached, please do not distribute. Please send your comments. I hope we can shorten the text a little bit.
We will have a meeting on 28 March to discuss further lobby strategy. I hope we can find a good way forward, also using our current campaign to approach the Members of EU Parliament. Maybe we can also provide some information on costs for license contracts.
I hope we can start some activities already before our meeting in Munich which we can use to explore further planning.
Cheers
Christoph