Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 13590

Genetically Modified Organisms: Crops

Tabled: 11 November 2024
Answered: 15 November 2024
Named Day

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that the British Society of Plant Breeders correctly applies the small producer exemption from royalty fees applied to grain crops with diverse genetic

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) is the representative body for the UK plant breeding industry. In the collection of royalty fees and farm saved seed payments, the BSPB are acting as independent agents of various breeders and are not contracte...

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