Euroseeds

Euroseeds welcomes the Commission's commitment to boost EU competitiveness. Simplification should contribute by aiming to improve the coherence and clarity of EU laws and to rationalise regulatory burdens and administrative costs for stakeholders through smarter and more effective implementation of EU policies and legislation.

Euroseeds, the voice of the European seed sector, welcomes the European Commissions initiative to modernize the regulatory framework for biotechnology and biomanufacturing. Representing a broad membership across all EU Member States and internationally, Euroseeds emphasizes the urgent need for a science-based, innovation-friendly, and proportionate regulatory environment to support plant breeding innovation. 1.

Euroseeds welcomes the Commissions initiative. Biotech is a key enabler across agriculture, industry and the environment, supporting EU value chains, food security, and climate adaptation.Agricultural biotechnology should be explicitly recognised as a strategic component of the European bioeconomy within Biotech Act II.The Call for Evidence refers to sustainable biomass, bio-based materials, and food and feed…

Euroseeds welcomes that the Commission proposal finally recognizes the need for a differentiated regulatory approach to certain conventional-like NGT-derived plants and products from the GMO legislation. The proposal establishes a verification process to confirm if a NGT plant is meeting the equivalence criteria of Category 1 (conventional-like).

Euroseeds welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the preparation of implementing acts under Regulation (EU) 2026/1388 on plants obtained through new genomic techniques (NGTs). Effective implementation will be critical to ensuring that the framework is workable, scientifically credible and capable of accommodating the diversity of products expected within Category 2.

Euroseeds welcomes the Commissions Call for Evidence and the opportunity to contribute to the preparation of delegated acts under Regulation (EU) 2026/1388. A clear, predictable, proportionate, and innovation-friendly framework aligned with the objectives of the primary legislation is essential to support investment, farmer access to improved varieties, EU competitiveness, and sustainability, while minimizing…

Euroseeds welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the evaluation of the Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR) (EU) 2019/1009. The seed sector plays a vital role in European agriculture, and it is essential that regulatory frameworks support innovation, sustainability, and the internal market.

Euroseeds welcomes the EU Commission initiative on the evaluation of the EU legislation on plant variety rights and, in particular of Regulation EC No 2100/94 on Community Plant Variety Rights (CPVR). Euroseeds strongly supports this initiative as crucial to ensure that the EU legal framework continues to foster innovation and protect intellectual property in the plant breeding sector.

Euroseeds, representing the European seed sector, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions open consultation on the EU Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) Regulation (EU No 511/2014). The European seed and plant breeding sector accesses genetic resources as a basis for innovation, competitiveness, and the development of improved plant varieties that contribute to sustainable agriculture, food…

Euroseeds is the voice of the European seed sector representing the interests of those active in research, breeding, production and marketing of seeds of agricultural and horticultural plant species. Euroseeds welcomes the proposal for a regulation from the Commission on the prolongation of the term of community plant variety right protection for certain species, including asparagus.

Euroseeds, the voice of the European Seed Sector, appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback to the public consultation on the draft Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards exemptions from the measures to prevent the presence of regulated non-quarantine pests on specific plants for planting.

Euroseeds, the voice of the European Seed Sector, appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback to the public consultation on the amendments of protective measures against pests of plants regarding Annexes IV and V of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072.

Euroseeds recognises the highly valuable information provided by the European agricultural statistics compiled by Eurostat. In this respect, we welcome the roadmap to modernise and improve crucial agricultural statistics especially the Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output (SAIO). As stated in the roadmap, climate change, social change, globalisation and other drivers are changing agriculture.