Hi all,

I wanted to give you a quick heads-up about a media briefing and a report on new GMOs and patents which will be published next Thursday (October 20th).

It's the report I already talked about in calls in spring, the focus is on new GMOs, but of course there are some overlaps to patents on conventional seeds.

On board are Global2000, Friends of the Earth EU, CEO, the Austrian chamber of labour/"Arbeiterkammer", IG Saatgut and ARCHE NOAH. The report is more of a summary of the situation in non-technical language to reach new audiences. I was also a great opportunity to talk to more organisations about patents. We will do some media work on it in Austria together with Global2000 (we meaning Katherine and Axel) and hope to both increase public discussions on patents again, as well as to add the aspect of patents on new GMOs to the current discussion about the push for deregulating them.

If you have any questions, just let us know :)

Best, Dagmar

Dagmar Urban Team Saatgutpolitik/ Seed Policy Team

ARCHE NOAH Gesellschaft für die Erhaltung der Kulturpflanzenvielfalt und ihre Entwicklung Obere Straße 40, A-3553 Schiltern +43 (0)676 /931 81 80 dagmar.urban@arche-noah.at www.arche-noah.athttp://www.arche-noah.at/ ZVR 907994719

PS: Missbrauch des Patentrechts stoppen - jetzt unterschreibenhttp://www.keinpatentaufsaatgut.at/