STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION FOR FSSROYALTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION FOR FSS-ROYALTY IN THE
UNITED KINGDOM
Dr. Ernst-Adolf Loop SAATEN-UNION GmbH, Hannover
Tallinn, 4th of March 2008 TAIEX Meeting
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The Legislation

• EC-Council Regulation No 2100/94EC Commission
  Regulation No 1768/95Farmers have to pay for
  the use of FSSAmount per ha or of normal
  royalty for FSS-royalty has to be fixed between
  the plant-breeders-associations and
  farmers-unions in the member states.The amount
  of royalty for FSS has to be significant lower
  than the royalty for certified seed!

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Situation for Cereal and OSR Breeding in the UK
The part of FSS both for cereal and OSR more than
doubled in UK during the last 10 years to about
50 in average.UK is the only country in Europe
with a ratio of nearly 50 FSS with OSR!!!
(Only few hybrid varieties are used in UK)Cost
of breeding is increasing due to new
technologiesDH, Marker-Techn., Cell-cultures,
GMO (?), etc.Royalty income for
cereal-breeding is decreasing.Only one familiar
owned breeding unit survived in UK(Elsoms) in
200895 of the seed market is in the hands of
4-5 multinationals(Syngenta, Monsanto,
Limagrain, KWS, Pioneer)
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Collection off FSS-royalty in UK
All farmers, who purchased certified seed, have
to answer questions regarding use of FSSThe
FSS royalty is collected at t of used FSSAll
processors of FSS for farmers like
mobilecleaning contractors have to informs the
BSPBabout processed volumes, names and
addressof their clientsBSPB is sending
invoices both to farmers answeringthemselves for
use of FSS and to those, who usedcleaning and
processing facilities for their FSSThe
collected amount is about 50 of normal
royaltyCosts for collection of FSS are about 20
of collected amount
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Problems with Collection off FSS-royalty in UK
Farmers use very different amounts of FSS per
haa payment only at t of FSS is always causing
many discussionsuse of seed per ha may be very
differentrye 80-90 kg per ha ? spring wheat
200-240 kg per hadepending at sowing time amount
of use from FSS for spring barleymay be very
different 75 kg at sowing in February with low
TGWup to 160 kg for sowing in late April with
high TGWProcessors of FSS for farmers like
mobilecleaning contractors have to informs the
BSPBonly about processed volumes, not about ha
sownby farmers
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Collection off FSS-royalty in UK
All farmers, who purchased certified seed, have
to answer questions regarding use of FSSAll
processors of FSS for farmers like
mobilecleaning contractors have to informs the
BSPBabout processed volumes, names and
addressof their clientsBSPB is sending
invoices both to farmers answeringthemselves for
use of FSS and to those, who usedcleaning and
processing facilities for their FSSCosts for
collection of FSS are about 20 of collected
amount
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Status of FSS-royalty implementation France
(gt50 FSS wheat / lt 10 FSS for barley)

• for wheat an agreement between farmers,
  processors, collectors and seed-producers has
  been officialized under a French Decre ? 0,5
  per ton of collection wheat has to be forwarded
  to the breeders.Users of certified seed can
  apply to get back the amount of payed royalty !

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Optimal implementation of FSS-RoyaltyFinland
(70 FSS)

• System implemented since 2001 with a fixed
  amount per ha for the use of FSS (3,84 /ha)
  Agricultural authorities collect needed data for
  FSS-royalty from farmers as a part of their
  IACS-data collection work system. 98 of all
  FSS-royalty is collected!! Costs of collection
  only about 4 of FSS-royalty!!!

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Normal implementation of FSS-Royalty Sweden
(15 FSS)

• 95 of FSS-royalty is collected costs of
  collection is about 15 of FSS-royalty
  semilar systems are implemented in DK, NL, BE,
  IR, UK ? part of FSS is 15 50, costs of
  collection about 20 in average

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Implementation in New EC-Countries
SL (60 FSS) private agreements between big
farms and plant- breeders for FSSSK (70
FSS) System has recently been implemented and
starts to workPL (90 FSS) a state law is
under discussion to assure payment of
FSS-royalty to cereal breedersCZ (40
FSS) certified seed get subvention from the
CZ-agriculture ministery ? lower volumes of
FSS System for FSS-royalty is under
implementationLT (90 FSS) seed multipliers
are only allowed to sell seed of new varities
to farmers who agree to 1. pay 4 /ha for
use of FSS 2. allow inspection of fields and
field maps 3. pay a penalty of 20.000 if
1. or 2. are not fulfilled