5 Amendments of Bert-Jan RUISSEN related to 2021/2007(INI)
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it essential to protect intellectual property rights to promote innovation, in particular with the aim of introducing more resilient agricultural varieties to cope with climate change and achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal; stresses that protection of such plant varieties requires a strong and enforceable plant variety protection system in the EU;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Underlines the importance of the Community plant variety rights (CPVR) system to ensure breeders can continue the development of new varieties for sustainable food production and horticulture, thereby benefiting breeders, growers, farmers, consumers and society at large;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Welcomes the inclusion of the CPVR system in the action plan in order to improve the protection of the plant variety rights, to ensure the effectiveness of the system in the future and its proper application;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Underlines that the strength of the plant variety rights system is the balanced way in which it protects the breeders’ work, while at the same time ensuring through the breeder’s exemption that others may freely use the protected variety to create another new variety and market it;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Insists, however, that intellectual property rights should not lead to a reduction in the diversity of species and varieties and a loss of independence for farmers; also insists that farmers must remain the owners of their seeds and breeding material. Underlines that the plant variety rights system includes the appropriate conditions and safeguards for farmers’ independence and therefore shall remain the sole system for protection of plant varieties, plants and plant traits in plant breeding.