Dear Johanna and Christoph

Thanks a lot for sharing. I read the press release with interest - in particular, reflections in regard with the ongoing discussions on the regulation on NGT. I find it important to shed some light on these aspects. However, at the beginning of the last paraph there is one sentence I can't understand: "An initiative to ban conventional breeding would be extremely serious: if there is no clear and legally secure interpretation of the prohibitions, corporations, such as Bayer and Corteva, BASF and Syngenta, will soon be able to control all seeds – produced with or without genetic engineering".

Best,

Simon

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de Im Auftrag von Johanna Eckhardt Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2024 11:55 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: Re: [Npos_2018] opposition rejected / please spread on social media

Dear all,

I posted on Twitter (English and German) www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed and the press release is online: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/news/lettuce-decision

Please share!

Kind regards, Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT Project Coordination Tel. +43 680 21 26 343 johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de Im Auftrag von Christoph Then Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2024 11:21 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: [Npos_2018] opposition rejected / please spread on social media

Dear all

we lost a further opposition (but were invited to appeal..)

Johanna will now publish the negative outcome and also post on X. If you have time it might be good idea, to retweet and tagg members of Parliament which today will vote on NGTs.

cheers

Christoph

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Dear Simon,

thanks for your comments.

Yes, this was a mistake in the text that we apparently forgot to fix in the backgrounder. Thanks for pointing it out! It should read:

"An initiative to ban patents on conventional breeding would be extremely urgent: if there is no clear and legally secure interpretation of the prohibitions, corporations, such as Bayer and Corteva, BASF and Syngenta, will soon be able to control all seeds – produced with or without genetic engineering."

I corrected the backgrounder on our homepage: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/lettuce

Kind regards,

Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org

NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!

www.no-patents-on-seeds.org

www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds

www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Simon Degelo - SWISSAID s.degelo@swissaid.ch Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Februar 2024 12:52 An: Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org; Christoph Then info@no-patents-on-seeds.org Cc: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: AW: [Npos_2018] opposition rejected / please spread on social media

Dear Johanna and Christoph

Thanks a lot for sharing. I read the press release with interest - in particular, reflections in regard with the ongoing discussions on the regulation on NGT. I find it important to shed some light on these aspects. However, at the beginning of the last paraph there is one sentence I can't understand:

"An initiative to ban conventional breeding would be extremely serious: if there is no clear and legally secure interpretation of the prohibitions, corporations, such as Bayer and Corteva, BASF and Syngenta, will soon be able to control all seeds – produced with or without genetic engineering".

Best,

Simon

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Npos_2018 < mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> Im Auftrag von Johanna Eckhardt

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2024 11:55

An: mailto:npos_2018@testbiotech.de npos_2018@testbiotech.de

Betreff: Re: [Npos_2018] opposition rejected / please spread on social media

Dear all,

I posted on Twitter (English and German) http://www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed and the press release is online: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/news/lettuce-decision https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/news/lettuce-decision

Please share!

Kind regards,

Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

mailto:johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org

NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!

http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org www.no-patents-on-seeds.org

http://www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds

http://www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed

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Von: Npos_2018 < mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> Im Auftrag von Christoph Then

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2024 11:21

An: mailto:npos_2018@testbiotech.de npos_2018@testbiotech.de

Betreff: [Npos_2018] opposition rejected / please spread on social media

Dear all

we lost a further opposition (but were invited to appeal..)

Johanna will now publish the negative outcome and also post on X. If you have time it might be good idea, to retweet and tagg members of Parliament which today will vote on NGTs.

cheers

Christoph

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