Brussels, 12/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - Europe is doing the right thing by making it an obligation to market only vegetable seed for which varieties have been included in the official catalogues, all the more as it provides for derogations to be made for “old varieties”, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday 12 July.
Authorising the sale of catalogue-accepted seeds allows the productivity of seed crops to be improved, the Court states in a judgment long-awaited by European farmers,...