Resources

CropLife welcomes the decision of the European Patent Office (EPO) in case T1063/18 declaring Rule 28(2) as not applicable because it is in conflict with Art 53b) of the European Patent Convention. Rule 28(2) in the Implementing Regulations of the European Patent Convention excludes from patentability of plants exclusively obtained by means of an essentially biological process. CropLife also notes that the Board of Appeal also decided to remit the case to a first instance for further examination of remaining patentability requirements.

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This infographic highlights the global impacts and results of container management programs from 58 countries. Updated version featuring data from 2017.

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Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt — 30 November 2018 — CropLife International and the Global Industry Coalition (GIC) applaud the significant efforts of Parties that went into the 2018 Biodiversity Convention negotiations held this month in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, including the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-14), the Ninth meeting of the Conferences of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP-8), and the Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (NP-MOP-3).

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AACC international capacity building on sampling and detection methods for living modified organism plants have been a key resource for the implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity Biosafety Protocol. Find out more in this article by Raymond Shillito, of BASF. Article originally published in Cereal Foods World .

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The benefits of smallholder-based food production systems in the developing world have been written about extensively in both a scientific and policy context. This paper explores the literature to understand the role of modern agricultural technologies towards improving smallholder production and livelihoods.

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New report looks at how the crop protection industry has evolved over the past 60 years.

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A high level of investment from the crop protection industry to research and develop new products has led to a continual improvement in both the effectiveness and safety profile of pesticides, according to a new report. The study, commissioned by CropLife International, was undertaken by Phillips McDougall, crop protection and seed industry analysts.

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This document is intended to provide a framework for how to assess the environmental safety of microbial pesticides. This is intended to aid company internal decision-making regarding safety but does not assess what is required to gain regulatory approval in any particular country.

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This document is intended to provide a framework for how to assess the human safety of microbial pesticides. This is intended to aid company internal decision-making regarding safety but does not assess what is required to gain regulatory approval in any particular country.

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CropLife regions are focused on promoting information linkages across borders on the trade of illegal pesticides. We are also developing international consensus and momentum with law enforcement to tackle the issue of counterfeits and in providing facts to their trans-national investigations. Among intergovernmental institutions we promote the full enforcement of existing legislation and improvements in legislation (especially for penalties) to target the growing trade in counterfeit and illegal pesticides.

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There exists extensive international, regional and national guidance and regulations for the handling, storage, containment measures, waste management, transport, packaging and identification of biological organisms under contained use, including LMOs, and the majority of Parties have existing provisions regulating the transit and contained use of LMOs already established in their national legislation. As such, the Global Industry Coalition (GIC) considers any new work on these issues under the Cartagena Protocol for Biosafety (Protocol) as duplicative and unnecessary, and likely to create conflicting requirements for countries with national regulations already in place. The GIC therefore supports the draft decision on this issue for consideration at COP/MOP-9 that reminds Parties of their obligations to share information and existing guidance relating contained use of LMOs on the Biosafety Clearing-house (BCH).

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CropLife International supports ratification of the NKL-SP and congratulates those countries that have ratified it and are working toward its implementation. The NKL-SP is a positive tool providing the framework of a workable system that can contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. In support of this international instrument, CropLife International has developed one of the only capacity building tools available to Parties – the CropLife International N-KL SP Implementation Guide – to provide implementation assistance. CropLife International thus supports the draft decision on liability and redress under the Convention on Biological Diversity (Convention) and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Protocol) and recommends that Parties focus ongoing work targeted toward timely and complete implementation of the N-KL SP. However, we also caution against undertaking any new work that would duplicate efforts completed and issues considered during its negotiation.

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CropLife International’s position paper on Fall Armyworm and how to manage it effectively.

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The Global Industry Coalition (GIC) continues to have significant concerns with the ongoing negotiations on risk assessment and risk management of LMOs under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, in particular, how gaps in existing guidance are identified and selected for further consideration in the absence of consensus by the Parties that such work is justified.  The proposed recommendations continue the inefficient and unproductive work that has occurred on this issue since 2004, using the same mechanisms that have not led to beneficial outcomes for the Parties.  The GIC is firmly of the view that the SBSTTA should discontinue this repetitious work.  SBSTTA is instead requested to recommend work on developing objective and agreed-upon criteria to determine whether further work on risk assessment is warranted. An appropriate mechanism for this activity is an online forum that would allow for the participation of a wide spectrum of experts to engage and support outcomes fully-informed by appropriate expertise.

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