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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10612

11 May 2012
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) industry
Exemption for conventionally-bred plants and animals

Brussels, 10/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Parliament wants to protect European breeders from excessive patent protection, which it believes could stifle innovation and progress. In a resolution adopted on Thursday 10 May (354 votes for, 192 against, with 22 abstentions), the EP affirms that products such as anti-carcinogenic broccoli or high-yield dairy cows, produced by conventional breeding techniques, should not be patented. MEPs recognise that patents are an important tool for the...

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