New EU Seed Directive

June 28, 2008 · Filed Under Getting Political, Seed Saving, Seeds 

Luigi over at the Biodiversity Weblog posted the text of a new EU directive on seeds.

It’s far from the end of EU Seed Laws we are all hoping for, but it’s kind of interesting because it seems to be vaguely worded and could let individual countries significantly relax their seed laws if they choose to.

The proof is in the pudding as they say, and we just have to wait and see what happens.

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  1. EU Seed Laws? | Bifurcated Carrots on January 10th, 2010 12:03

    [...] made this post a year and a half ago.  It seems the EU has quietly put through a directive that may allow the relaxing of seed laws in some cases, but it’s still not very clear what it means.  It does however seem like different countries [...]

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