Dear Christoph, dear all,

Thanks for the update!

Yes, we can provide a first draft in the first week of October (Katherine and Fulya are working on this).

We had a first meeting with Saatgut Austria on the issue, and they start seeing a problem, but it is unclear if they would support our demands - but the general letter will have a focus on the problems anyway. It's very complicated for them to sign letter as Saatgut Austria, but if it's not realistic we can expect several individual companies to sign individually (also mainstream one!). We would still try to get the whole organization though.

Some ARCHE NOAH colleagues had a meeting with Reinsaat, and they were not aware of the problem at all! We are still following up on that.

There was an IG Saatgut meeting in Vienna recently (association for German-speaking seed and breeder organisations), where we discussed patents quite in detail, including with representatives Bingenheimer, Dreschflegel and Dottenfelder Hof. For Bingenheimer, Gebhard is not the CEO anymore, but still follows the political work for them: g.rossmanith@consulting-osb.de We are in good contact with them now, so I am also happy to accompany a meeting in Germany, if helpful.

I think many IG Saatgut members would be ready to sign letter, but they are not mainstream - we plan to follow-up on that in autumn as well.

Best, Dagmar

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de Im Auftrag von Christoph Then Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. September 2022 10:07 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: [Npos_2018] some updates: Talk with Dutch officials and Salvia

dear all

yesterday we had direct exchange with Dutch officials which deal with patent law and innovation. Johanna, Nout, Bram, Francois and me participated. They took our concerns with interest, however they also noted that industry is not very active yet (which is decisive for them).

Bram suggested to organise a round table with the Dutch officials and Dutch breeders. This was taken up as a good proposal. We also should consider the idea of Arche Noah, to come up with a letter from breeders (and farmers and maybe Copa/Cogeca).  We would need 'mainstream breeders' but, of course, also organic breeders should show up. It might be a god idea to start with breeders from one country such as Austria. These breeders then could help us to spread the network.

I will ask Bingenheim about their idea. In case, please make suggestion whom to contact.

We also should agree on a text that can be signed as a letter. maybe Dagmar could provide us with a first draft. This letter could also be used to make further contacts with KWS.

In addition, we were in contact with Salvia. It looks like all technicalities regarding the report on the old project and the application of the new project were successfully solved by Johanna. So now let us keep fingers crossed.

we also will send out a new round of letters to remind the experts of the EPO states to come back to us because of the petition.

Cheers

Christoph

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