Proposed EU law to make all plants, and growing of, illegal
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14 Jul 2013, 4:34 am
Link to the article:
www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_Europe ... ation.html
Quote:
(NaturalNews) A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."
It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.
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All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:
Title IV Registration of varieties in national and Union registers The varieties, in order to be made available on the market throughout the Union, shall be included in a national register or in the Union register via direct application procedure to the CPVO.
Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy for the registration of their seeds. From the proposed law text:
The competent authorities and the CPVO should charge fees for the processing of
applications, the formal and technical examinations including audits, variety denomination, and the maintenance of the varieties for each year for the duration of
the registration.
/.../
"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control," says Ben Gabel. "All this new law does is create a whole new raft of EU civil servants being paid to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the seed supply to home gardeners and interfering with the right of farmers to grow what they want. It also very worrying that they have given themselves the power to regulate and licence any plant species of any sort at all in the future - not just agricultural plants, but grasses, mosses, flowers, anything at all - without having to bring it back to the Council for a vote."
As a hint of the level of insane bureaucracy that gardeners and vegetable growers will be subject to under this EU law, check out this language from the proposed EU law:
Specific provisions are set out on the registration in the Union variety register and with regard to the possibility for the applicant to launch an appeal against a CPVO decision. Such provisions are not laid down for the registration in the national variety
registers, because they are subject to national administrative procedures. A new obligation for each national variety examination centre to be audited by the CPVO will be introduced with the aim to ensure the quality and harmonisation of the variety registration process in the Union. The examination centre of the professional operators will be audited and approved by the national competent authorities. In case of direct application to the CPVO it will audit and approve the examination centres it uses for variety examination.
Such language is, of course, Orwellian bureaucraticspeak that means only one thing: All gardeners should prepare to be subjected to total government insanity over seeds, vegetables and home gardens.
RealSeeds.co.uk warns about any attempt to actually try to understand the law by reading it:
You cannot just read the first 5 pages or so that are an 'executive summary', and think you know what this law is about. The executive summary is NOT what will become the law. It is the actual Articles themselves that become law, the Summary has no legal standing and is just tacked on as an aid to the public and legislators, it is supposed to give background information and set the proposed legislation in context so people know what is going on and why.
The problem with this law has always been that the Summary says lots of nice fluffy things about preserving biodiversity, simplifying legislation, making things easier etc - things we all would love - but the Articles of the law actually do completely the opposite. And the Summary is not what becomes the law.
For example, the Summary of drafts 1, 2 & 3 talked about making things easier for 'Amateur' varieties. But the entire class of Amateur vegetables - which we have spent 5 years working with DEFRA to register - was actually abolished entirely in the Articles right from the start. Yet the Summary , and press releases based on it, still talked about how it will help preserve Amateur varieties!
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Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized under this proposed EU law. This means the act of saving seeds from one generation to the next -- a cornerstone of sustainable living -- will become a criminal act.
/.../
It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.
/.../
All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:
Title IV Registration of varieties in national and Union registers The varieties, in order to be made available on the market throughout the Union, shall be included in a national register or in the Union register via direct application procedure to the CPVO.
Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy for the registration of their seeds. From the proposed law text:
The competent authorities and the CPVO should charge fees for the processing of
applications, the formal and technical examinations including audits, variety denomination, and the maintenance of the varieties for each year for the duration of
the registration.
/.../
"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control," says Ben Gabel. "All this new law does is create a whole new raft of EU civil servants being paid to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the seed supply to home gardeners and interfering with the right of farmers to grow what they want. It also very worrying that they have given themselves the power to regulate and licence any plant species of any sort at all in the future - not just agricultural plants, but grasses, mosses, flowers, anything at all - without having to bring it back to the Council for a vote."
As a hint of the level of insane bureaucracy that gardeners and vegetable growers will be subject to under this EU law, check out this language from the proposed EU law:
Specific provisions are set out on the registration in the Union variety register and with regard to the possibility for the applicant to launch an appeal against a CPVO decision. Such provisions are not laid down for the registration in the national variety
registers, because they are subject to national administrative procedures. A new obligation for each national variety examination centre to be audited by the CPVO will be introduced with the aim to ensure the quality and harmonisation of the variety registration process in the Union. The examination centre of the professional operators will be audited and approved by the national competent authorities. In case of direct application to the CPVO it will audit and approve the examination centres it uses for variety examination.
Such language is, of course, Orwellian bureaucraticspeak that means only one thing: All gardeners should prepare to be subjected to total government insanity over seeds, vegetables and home gardens.
RealSeeds.co.uk warns about any attempt to actually try to understand the law by reading it:
You cannot just read the first 5 pages or so that are an 'executive summary', and think you know what this law is about. The executive summary is NOT what will become the law. It is the actual Articles themselves that become law, the Summary has no legal standing and is just tacked on as an aid to the public and legislators, it is supposed to give background information and set the proposed legislation in context so people know what is going on and why.
The problem with this law has always been that the Summary says lots of nice fluffy things about preserving biodiversity, simplifying legislation, making things easier etc - things we all would love - but the Articles of the law actually do completely the opposite. And the Summary is not what becomes the law.
For example, the Summary of drafts 1, 2 & 3 talked about making things easier for 'Amateur' varieties. But the entire class of Amateur vegetables - which we have spent 5 years working with DEFRA to register - was actually abolished entirely in the Articles right from the start. Yet the Summary , and press releases based on it, still talked about how it will help preserve Amateur varieties!
/.../
Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized under this proposed EU law. This means the act of saving seeds from one generation to the next -- a cornerstone of sustainable living -- will become a criminal act.
/.../
More in the original article.
Clearly, this is a result of the corruption of the EFSA, its good friends in the U.S., and the rest of the top EU "leaders", being bribed by Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Bayer, BASF, AstraZeneca and other GMO companies, to finally completely take over what people simply cannot be without: food. The EFSA has several times been caught in the act, in regards to this: www.globalresearch.ca/stench-of-eu-corr ... sh/5316294 ; http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/05/29/ ... interests/
Link to the proposed law:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer ... php_en.pdf
Petitions against it:
www.avaaz.org/en/petition/We_dont_accep ... r_seeds_EU
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... QQtQJJRo3g
Additional links:
http://open-seeds.org/bad-seed-law/
www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html
http://on.fi/opinion/ledare/2013-05-03/ ... sjuk-tanke (in Swedish)
Other GMO-related links:
The Séralini study: gmoseralini.org
The findings of Dr. Arpad Pusztai: www.thefreelibrary.com/A+Burning+Contro ... a071200505
The genetically modified parts of GM plants are able to be absorbed by one's DNA: www.theatlantic.com/health/
archive/2012/01/the-very-real-
danger-of-genetically-modified-
foods/251051/
Be prepared for the consequences if you're anti-GMO: http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/07/13/ ... eCxgUG-2So
A thread of mine regarding subject: www.wrongplanet.net/postt219551.html
By the way, did you know that in the U.S., it is illegal in many states for people to collect rainwater...?
When is enough enough? When do people rule their "leaders" unfit to rule? A law only is a law because people allow it to be a law.
14 Jul 2013, 4:45 am
I tried to add this, but the Captcha crap doesn't seem to allow me to edit my post:
(Edit: It should've said 'by default' at the end of the subject, but the character limit cut it off.)
By the way, take note that a couple of the links are broken due to a flawed link system, of this forum. Just copy and paste them, instead, if you wish to read them.
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14 Jul 2013, 7:18 am
Q&A on the Commission's proposal for a new plant reproductive material law
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5. Is the new proposal going to regulate what people plant in their gardens?
Private gardeners and farmers who use seeds and plants and produce them for their own
consumption are not covered by this proposal. The proposal only concerns the marketing
of plant reproductive material, and production of that material with a view to marketing.
Private gardeners and farmers who use seeds and plants and produce them for their own
consumption are not covered by this proposal. The proposal only concerns the marketing
of plant reproductive material, and production of that material with a view to marketing.
Beauty_pact wrote:
By the way, take note that a couple of the links are broken due to a flawed link system, of this forum.
No, you just don't know how to use the link system. Use the URL-tags
Example:
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[u][url]http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/pressroom/docs/proposal_aphp_en.pdf[/url][/u]
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/pressroom/docs/proposal_aphp_en.pdf
