Oppose proposed EU Regulation on Marketing of Plant Reproductive Material

1. Biodiversity will be greatlly reduced because it will be expensive to obtain approval for unfashionable varieties even though they may have qualitites that prove useful later.

2. The EU proposal would hand the whole of agriculture to big corporations like Monsanto on a plate, as they will have the money to develop and gain approval of seed varieties that they will have total control of. This will not be in the interests of farmers or consumers.