Signatures handed to the President of the European Parliament

11 September 2012 / In total, 70.000 signatures against patents on plants and animals are handed to the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, in Strasbourg. The signatures were collected by the coalition No Patents on Seeds!, which is supported by several hundred organisations all over Europe.

Photo: Andreas Varnhorn/Greenpeace

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Stop Patents on Plants and Animals!

The member organisations of NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! are concerned about the increasing number of patents on plants, seeds and farm animals and their impact on farmers, breeders, innovation and biodiversity.
These patents are an abuse of patent law and put in danger the access to basic resources in agriculture and food production.

Therefore, we call for an urgent re-think of European patent law in biotechnology and plant breeding and for clear regulations that exclude conventional breeding, genetic material, animals, plants and food derived thereof from patentability!