10/12/2018, 02:11
Liebe Unterstützende,
der Petent oder die Petentin hat innerhalb der letzten 12 Monate nach Ende der Unterschriftensammlung keine Neuigkeiten erstellt und den Status nicht geändert. openPetition geht davon aus, dass die Petition nicht eingereicht oder übergeben wurde.
Wir bedanken uns herzlich für Ihr Engagement und die Unterstützung,
Ihr openPetition-Team
11/06/2013, 00:12
Dear Signatories of our petition „Apdraugeta seklu daudzveidiba - Pret ES seklu regulejuma, kas kalpo seklu industrijai“!
Altogether some 150.000 people are supporting the diverse version of the Petition. Thanks to you and all the other people who signed the Latvian version! It is closing on midnight, the maximum subscription period of six months for each version is prescribed by the platform "openPetition" and can not be extended. We also thank openPetition for providing the platform!
What is next ?
The petition will be handed over in Brussels during the course of the legislative process. When there will be the right time for this, that depends on further course.
So far, in the lead Agricultural Committee of the EU Parliament the rapporteur for seed legislation was set, it is Sergio Silvestris of the Italian PdL, a member of the EPP Group. He will formulate the report of the Committee on the proposed legislation to the House of Parliament. His draft see here: www.saatgutkampagne.org/PDF/Draft_Report_PRM.pdf There are also so-called shadow -rapporteurs of the other groups.
A first debate on the bill has taken place on 30.9., here's a look back: www.seed-sovereignty.org/PDF/MEPs_criticize_proposed_new_EU_seed_law.pdf . From the other groups came requests and criticism of the Commission proposal. In the end it will be important that the members of the EPP Group follow their conscience in the seed question and vividly interfere in the debate - and not bow to the party discipline, assumed to be set by Albert DESS from Bavaria, who is the coordinator of EPP group in the AGRI committee.
The next steps are now: the second debate in the Agriculture Committee on November 25&26 2013 and the submission of amendments until December 4 2013. After this date these amendments will be debated and voted. The first debate in the House of Parliament is scheduled for mid April 2014.
Besides this a working group of the Council of the EU currently meets on a monthly basis. There the member governments are represented, and they are preparing their position. If the results of the Parliament and Council are be different, a so-called "trialogue " between the EU Commission , Parliament and Council will be held.
What can I do myself more ?
a) Please keep yourself and others informed! May be you would like to watch and to screen our documentary "Resilient Seed" www.youtube.com/watch?v=unsC2SGdMBU or in German www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaOt0PD0G5s . You may pass this info on, read and distribute our brochure "Resilient Seed" www.saatgutkampagne.org/PDF/Resilient_Seed_EN_web.pdf or in German www.saatgutkampagne.org/PDF/Booklet_Saatgutfilm2011_web.pdf
b ) You could discuss in local groups on seed legislation. And for some more days the petition can be signed in Spanisch&English at www.openpetition.de/petition/online/amenaza-a-la-diversidad-de-semillas-no-a-las-normas-europeas-en-beneficio-de-la-industria-semillera#googtrans(de%7Ces) or in Swedish&German: www.openpetition.de/petition/online/mngfalden-av-froeer-hotas-nej-till-eu-s-inskraenkande-regler-till-foermn-foer-utsaedesindustrin
c ) You may enter into conversation with EU parliamentarians: Write to MEPs to which you have a geographic proximity.
Please describe to them why the diversity of seeds and farmers seeds is important to you and what you require for the new seed legislation. You may refer to the „joint statement on the proposal on legislation about plant reproductive material“, www.seed-sovereignty.org/PDF/joint_statement_seed_legislation_2013-06-12_web.pdf If you inform us of reactions, we can go into it.
d) You could start or continue by yourself to save seeds. You may attend or organize seed-swaps - a great way to get in contact with like-minded people! Seed swaps are preferable from February to April or May.
e) visit www.seed-sovereignty.org We try to keep you informed!
Best regards
Andreas Riekeberg
Campaign for Seed-Sovereignty
www.seed-sovereignty.org
Email: info@seed-sovereignty.org
11/03/2013, 15:15
Hallo!
Jums ir parakstijuši peticiju „Apdraugeta seklu daudzveidiba - Pret ES seklu regulejuma, kas kalpo seklu industrijai“.
Paldies!
Otrdiena ir pedeja diena parakstit so peticiju.
(Tuesday is the last day to sign the petition)
Ja jus velaties dalities peticiju ar citiem cilvekiem, ludzu, dariet to tikai tagad.
(If you want to share the petition with other people, please do it just now.)
Tad, ludzu, aicinat vinus parakstit petīciju seit.
(Then, please invite them to sign the petition here)
www.openpetition.de/petition/online/apdraugaeta-saeklu-daudzveidaeba-pret-es-saeklu-regulaejuma-kas-kalpo-saeklu-industrijai
Diemzel no ramja teksts ir vacu valoda, jo nav par google autotranslation iespeja latviesu valoda.
Unfortunately the text of the frame is in German, because there is no possibility of google autotranslation into Latvian.
“Vollständiger Name” = “Pilns vards un uzvards”
“Postleitzahl Ort” = “pasta indekss pilseta”
“Straße Hausnr.” = “lelu numurs.”
“Email” = “e-pasts”
Var but jusu draugiem un kolegiem, velos izteikt savu pieprasijumu par tiesibu aktiem par labu dazadibu seklu un par labu lauksaimniekiem seklas. (May be your friends and colleagues want to express their demand for a legislation in favor of diversity of seeds and in favor of farmers seeds.)
ar laba velejumiem / Best regards
Andreas Riekeberg
Campaign for Seed-Sovereignty
www.seed-sovereignty.org
10/10/2013, 16:25
DeputÄti kritizÄ“ priekÅ¡likumu jaunajam ES regulu sÄ“klas / MEPs criticize proposal for new EU seed regulation
Preliminary note: If anyone could translate the following text into Latvian, please send it to me (info@seed-sovereignty.org), I will then send it to all the signatories of this petition.
The Campaign for Seed Sovereignty recognizes the criticism of the proposed EU seed regulation (www.seed-sovereignty.org/PDF/EU_COM_proposal_PRM_LV.pdf) following the statements by some MEPs in the AGRI committee of the EU-Parliament.
In their meeting on Monday, the 30th of September Martin HÄUSLING (Greens/EFA; Germany), Ulrike RODUST (S&D; Germany), Britta REIMERS (ALDE; Germany) and Karin KADENBACH (S&D; Austria) took the floor and criticized the strengthening of the concentration in the seed market and the large number of delegated acts. They asked for the deregulation of small producers, and for the transparency of breeding methods.
John Stuart AGNEW (EFD; UK) stressed the need for the exclusion of private persons from the scope of the regulation. Marc TARABELLA (S&D; Belgium) asked for free of seed exchange between farmers. Georg LYON (ALDE; UK) asked if the new regulation would really be a simplification.
Very in favor of the proposed regulation was rapporteur Sergio SILVESTRIS (EPP; Italy) and Herbert DORFMANN (EPP; Italy). Astonishingly both seemed unable or unwilling to differentiate between registration of varieties and the certification of PRM-lots. Even the shadow rapporteur Luis Manuel CAPOULAS SANTOS (S&D; Portugal) pledged his support for the proposal, who chose to focus on the identity of varieties and sanitary aspects, both issues referred to by Silvestris in his reply to the statements of the other MEPs.
Officer POUDELET of the DG SANCO from the EU-commission clarified the point of farmers seeds: “If a farmer is selling seed to another farmer, in other words there is a sale involved with a profit motive, than clearly he has got to go through the certification hoopsâ€. This intensification of control over farmers seeds was an issue addressed by the Campaign for Seed Sovereignty just before the AGRI-meeting.
Watch the video of the meeting with an English translation here bifurcatedcarrots.eu/euparl/agri30sept_en.wmv or request a link for download in Latvian via: www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/lv/committees/video?event=20130930-1500-COMMITTEE-AGRI (A=16:06:25; B=17:02:00)
On 24th of November the seed regulation will be again on the agenda of COM-AGRI. It is important to send strong messages to the members of the committee with our demands; the scope of the regulation has to be the marketing of seeds above certain limits, farmers seeds and seeds of diversity varieties have to be excluded from the scope of the regulation, organic varieties need special registration procedures and we demand transparency concerning modern breeding methods!
Spēcīga kritika priekšlikuma / Strong concerns over the proposal
For the first time not only is the marketing of seeds in the scope of the European seed law, but also potentially the production of seeds. The effect would be that farms and nurseries, which are producing seeds for themselves of for the exchange with their neighbors, are under the regulation and would be obliged to keep information on many of their activities (paragraphs 6 – 8 of the proposal). This would be a heavy burden, especially for subsistence farming in eastern and southern Europe. It's very important for all farmers to have the ability to resow their own seeds, without legal barriers or administrative burden.
Besides this, a regulation would have much more impact than the current directives. A European regulation doesn't leave space for local interpretation or implementation, so it's not possible to adopt it to specific demands of the agricultural structures in member states.
Furthermore the basic problem of the reform of the EU seed law is the preferential treatment of highly homogeneous and highly stable DUS varieties. These varieties are adopted to agrochemicals and to the processing conditions of the food industry, which demand uniform, transportable and storable crops. This will only cause further contraction of agricultural biological diversity in Europe.
This change in seed policy should focus on the support and stimulation of real diversity in seed varieties. Important are varieties which are adopted to the regional conditions of soil and climate, those suited to home and artisanal processing, as well as those which provide a diversity of tastes and have a broad genetic base. To continue the current principles of seed legislation, to extend the scope of the seed law and to keep the DUS varieties as a standard, would mean the acceleration of the erosion of agricultural biodiversity, and put the nutritional basis for the coming age into jeopardy.
Andreas Riekeberg
Campaign for Seed-Sovereignty
www.se
06/06/2013, 01:43
Dear supporter of the petition „ApdraugÄ“ta mag sokféleség - szemben az EU-mag jogszabályok szolgálja vetÅ‘mag ipar!â€
Thank you for supporting our petition! Six weeks ago it went online, and in total we now have over 44.000 signatures from all over Europe and beyond, in more than 15 languages (cf. www.seed-sovereignty.org/EN/). If anybody would like to translate this posting into Latvian to get it posted here, please do so and send it back to info@seed-sovereignty.org . Thanks in advance!
What happened in the last few weeks?
On Monday the 6th of May, the EU Commission approved a proposal of the Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) marketing regulation, based on an earlier Nov 2012 draft criticized by our petition. The proposal however includes a provision for „niche“ varieties, and this is only due to the pressures collectively put on the politicians.
There are a number of criticisms of this proposal, see for example the press release in English from “Arche Noah†(Noah's ark) www.saatgutkampagne.org/130507_press_release_Arche_Noah.PDF and the one of the German umbrella organisation for crop and livestock biodiversity, "Seed that can be saved is disappearing from the market" www.kulturpflanzen-nutztiervielfalt.org/seed-can-be-saved-disappearing-market .
The demands of our petition stand, and will now be directed to the members of the EU Parliament and EU Council of Ministers.
Ahead of the vote on 6 May, six commissioners were informed about the petition as well as the current number of signatures on each of the languages. We demanded they reject the regulation, but it passed regardless.
It is now important to emphasize the demands that a new EU seed regulation must create the right conditions for seeds of diversity, farm bred varieties and varieties uniquely suited for organic culture by virtue of their genetic diversity.
In the coming weeks and months we will count on your help for this, as we talk to member of the EU Parliament and/or stand up in other ways politically for our demands. From 15 to 19 July the MEPs have their „constituency weeksâ€, cf www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/general/cal2013.pdf . For external parliamentary activities they should be in their home countries. Maybe you would like to try to organize discussions with them on the seed issue? This would be very important, if they are members of the AGRI or the ENVI committee!
Sincerely,
Andreas Riekeberg
Campaign for Seed-Sovereignty
www.seed-sovereignty.org/EN/
P.S.: Please forward this link to friends to sign the petition in Latvian: www.openpetition.de/petition/online/apdraugaeta-saeklu-daudzveidaeba-pret-es-saeklu-regulaejuma-kas-kalpo-saeklu-industrijai
05/07/2013, 00:34
The commission has voted today and is out of the game.
Neuer Petitionstext: GodÄtie ES Komisijas locekļi,
GodÄtie ES Parlamenta deputÄti,
Cienījamie Eiropas Padomes locekļi!
BriselÄ“ paÅ¡laik tiek izstrÄdÄta jauna sÄ“klu regula. Ja VeselÄ«bas un patÄ“rÄ“tÄju tiesÄ«bu aizsardzÄ«bas Ä£enerÄldirektorÄta plÄni kļūs par realitÄti, daudz veco un reto augļu, dÄrzeņu un graudu Å¡Ä·irnes pazudÄ«s no tirgus. Å Ä«m dažÄdÄm Å¡Ä·irnÄ“m, kÄ arÄ« tÄm Å¡Ä·irnÄ“m, kas pielÄgotas bioloÄ£iskajai lauksaimniecÄ«bai, tiks likti birokrÄtiski Å¡Ä·Ä“ršļi, tai pat laikÄ korporatÄ«vÄs lauksaimniecÄ«bas pozÄ«cijas tiks vÄ“l vairÄk nostiprinÄtas.
PaÅ¡laik pieejamie ES sÄ“klu regulas projekta teksti liecina, ka tÄ veicinÄs sÄ“klu tirgus koncentrÄciju nedaudzu sÄ“klu industrijas korporÄciju rokÄs. Tas ir nepieņemami! Jaunai ES sÄ“klu regulai ir jÄpieļauj Å¡Ä·irņu daudzveidÄ«ba un Å¡Ä·irnes, kas piemÄ“rotas maza izmÄ“ra saimniecÄ«bÄm ekoloÄ£iski adaptÄ“tu sÄ“klu audzÄ“Å¡anai. DaudzveidÄ«gÄm Å¡Ä·irnÄ“m ir jÄbÅ«t pieejamÄm ne tikai gÄ“nu bankÄs, bet arÄ« brÄ«vajÄ tirgÅ« bez jebkÄdiem birokrÄtiskiem ierobežojumiem.
TÄpÄ“c mÄ“s pieprasÄm – nekÄda sÄ“klu reÄ£istrÄcijas pienÄkuma! TurklÄt paÅ¡reizÄ“jie reÄ£istrÄcijas kritÄ“riji bÅ«tu jÄsamazina Å¡Ä·irnÄ“m, kuras ir piemÄ“rotas bioloÄ£iskajai lauksaimniecÄ«bai, ņemot vÄ“rÄ to daudzveidÄ«bas vÄ“rtÄ«gumu, lai mÅ«su lauksaimniecÄ«ba spÄ“tu pielÄgoties klimata pÄrmaiņÄm, jaunÄm slimÄ«bÄm un kaitÄ“kļiem, kÄ arÄ« lai veicinÄtu videi draudzÄ«gu dzÄ«vesveidu.
Ne paÅ¡reizÄ“jie ES sÄ“klu tiesÄ«bu akti, ne patlaban pieejamie neoficiÄli iesniegtie regulas projekti neatbilst Å¡Ä«m prasÄ«bÄm. Tie apdraud sÄ“klu daudzveidÄ«bu un tÄdÄ“jÄdi cilvÄ“ces kopÄ“jo lauksaimniecÄ«bas mantojumu. Tie arÄ« apdraud ilgtspÄ“jÄ«gu pÄrtikas sistÄ“mu un kalpo tikai agroÄ·Ä«mijas nozarei.
MÄ“s aicinÄm jÅ«s, Eiropas Komisijas, Eiropas Parlamenta un padomes locekļi, noraidÄ«t jebkuru priekÅ¡likumu, kas neatbilst iepriekÅ¡ minÄ“tajiem kritÄ“rijiem!
Nepieļausim turpmÄku Eiropas lauksaimniecÄ«bas un dÄrzkopÄ«bas sÄ“klu daudzveidÄ«bas iznÄ«cinÄÅ¡anu!
Lai iegÅ«tu vairÄk informÄcijas, apmeklÄ“jiet:
- SÄ“klu-suverenitÄtes kampaņa: www.saatgutkampagne.org / www.seed-sovereignty.org
- VÄcu “jumta organizÄcija†augkopÄ«bas un lopkopÄ«bas dažÄdÄ«bai ("Dachverband Kulturpflanzen-und Nutztiervielfalt eV"):
www.kulturpflanzen-nutztiervielfalt.org/node/29
- Zemas Draugi e www.zemesdraugi.lv
- Patrick WIEBE blogs: www.bifurcatedcarrots.eu/
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