Dear all,

please see below.

Nevertheless, I guess we continue with our plan to be ready with report end of March. We then might send it directly to the member of the AC.

for public activities with broader public outreach we might wait for the meeting taking place in 30 June 1 July.

on the website of the EPO with the Calendar, there were inserted additional technical support meetings. This might indicate that they expect need for decision making. This year is likely to become crucial.

Cheers

Christoph

PS Johanna prepared the minutes of the meeting. We should ready to send it around next week.

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: AC: your proposal for a side event Datum: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 21:34:04 +0000 Von: COUNCIL council@epo.org An: Christoph Then info@no-patents-on-seeds.org Kopie (CC): COUNCIL council@epo.org, Rainer Osterwalder rosterwalder@epo.org

Dear Mr Then,

Please see below a message sent on behalf of the AC chairman.

Kind regards,

Cornelia Umbach

<<Dear Mr Then,

I am writing concerning your invitation to a side event in the margins of the March Administrative Council, for which I thank you.

Please be informed that the Council meeting foreseen in March will not now take place as scheduled and that no delegate of Member States, including me, will come to Munich due to the rapid spread of the corona virus.

The Office communicated on this issue on its website today.

Kind regards,

Josef Kratochvil<<<

-----Original Message----- From: Christoph Then info@no-patents-on-seeds.org Sent: 03 March 2020 14:25 To: Josef Kratochvil jkratochvil@upv.cz Cc: COUNCIL council@epo.org; Rainer Osterwalder rosterwalder@epo.org Subject: our proposal for a side event

dear Mr Kratochvil

No Patents on Seeds! was proposing to organise a side event in the context of the meeting of the Admistrative Council in March.

In this regard, we were happy to receive a phone call from Mr. Osterwalder who promised to ask for decision making about our proposal in very near future.

We would be interested in getting some update and if possible to receive your decision, so we can prepare for next steps.

with kind regards,

Christoph Then