On Tuesday 21 April, negotiators from the EU Council and the European Parliament made progress in negotiations on the proposed regulation on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material.
The aim of the proposal is to radically overhaul the legal framework applicable to seeds and other plant reproductive material in the EU. The 81-Article text amends several existing regulations and repeals 12 sector-specific directives, some of which date back to the 1960s (see EUROPE...