28 Amendments of Georges BACH related to 2013/0137(COD)
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) intended solely for, and maintained and disseminated by, gene banks, organisations and networks of conservation of genetic resources, or persons belonging to those organisations or networks, including in situ/on farm conservation;
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point 6 – introductory part
Article 3 – point 6 – introductory part
(6) ‘professional operator’ means any natural or legal person carrying out, as a profession, at least one of the following activities with regard to plant reproductive material in view to making available on the market:
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point 6 – point f
Article 3 – point 6 – point f
Amendment 355 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) they represent a significant area of production, larger than 0.1% of the total agricultural area of the European Union;
Amendment 358 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) they represent a significant value of production, larger than 0.1% of the total value of agricultural production of the European Union;
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 365 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d
Amendment 378 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Plant reproductive material may only be produced and made available on the market, under one of the following categories:
Amendment 439 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 140, setting out that, by way of derogation to paragraph 1 of this Article, plant reproductive material may be produced and made available on the market without belonging to a fixed variety in the meaning of point (1) of Article 10 (‘hereafter ’heterogeneous material‘) and not fulfilling the requirements on distinctiveness, uniformity and stability as set out in articles 60, 61 and 62 and satisfactory value for cultivation and/or use or sustainable value for cultivation and/or use as set out in articles 58 and 59.
Amendment 441 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) rules on labelling and packagingincluding the region of selection, as well as the date and place of multiplication, and packaging that meet the needs of professional users;
Amendment 445 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) rules concerning description of the material, including the breeding methods and parental material used, description of the production scheme for the plant reproductive material and availability of standard samples, as well as common characteristics of constant characteristics (at the time of growing or harvest) of the population;
Amendment 447 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point d
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) establishment by the local or national competent authorities of registers for heterogeneous material, modalities for registration and content of those registers;
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Those delegated acts shall be adopted by [Office of Publications, please insert date of application of this Regulation…]. They may be adopted per particular genera or specie for all genera or species where a request is made. Heterogeneous populations have to fulfil the following requirements: freely reproducible and bred, selected and multiplied without microbiological methods.
Amendment 467 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15
Article 15
Plant reproductive material belonging to a clone may be produced and made available on the market only if that clone is registered in a national variety register referred to in Article 51 or in the Union variety register referred to in Article 52, or, if it complies with Article 36 (niche market material) or Article 57 (variety with officially recognized description).
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) it is made available on the market in small quantities by persons other than professional operators, or by independent professional operators employing no more than ten persons and whose annual PRM turnover or balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million;
Amendment 618 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) it is sold directly or with only one intermediary by the producer to the end user;
Amendment 623 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(bb) it is freely reproducible;
Amendment 625 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b c (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b c (new)
(bc) it is bred, selected and multiplied without microbiological methods;
Amendment 629 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 2
Article 36 – paragraph 2
2. The persons who produce niche market material for commercial cultivation shall keep records of the quantities of the material produced and made available on the market, per genera, species or type of material. On request, they shall make those records available to the competent authorities.
Amendment 638 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) the maximum size of packages, containers or bundles, including for commercial cultivation by small farmers;
Amendment 641 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) requirements concerning traceability, lots and labelling of the niche market material concerned including year and place of multiplication as well as the breeding method.
Amendment 645 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point c
Amendment 791 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) in case the variety had been previously not registered in a national variety register or in the Union variety register and plant reproductive material belonging to that variety has been made available on the market before the entry into force of this Regulation;
Amendment 796 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 803 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) it is sold directly or with only one intermediary by the producer to the end user,
Amendment 810 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(bb) it is reely reproducible,
Amendment 812 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b c (new)
Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point b c (new)
(bc) it is bred, selected or multiplied without microbiological methods.
Amendment 1424 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Part A – point n c (new)
Annex III – Part A – point n c (new)
(nc) use (‘MB’) or non-use (‘NMB’) of microbiological methods for breeding, selection or multiplication.