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25 Regent Street
Great Yarmouth
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Stuart Agnew

Patentability of plant traits

13th October 2015

Exchange of views on plant breeders' rights and a recent decision of the European Patent office (EPO) concerning the patentability of plant traits - please see 'Latest Speeches and Videos'.

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Historic...But Interesting! 1000+ Scientists Challenged Man-made Global Warming Claims
Which illicit product came first from Ukraine? The chicken or the egg?
Plant breeders have revolutionised agriculture
You continue to plunder our fishing grounds as you've done for the past 40 years
Farmers Guardian Brexit Article
Farmers Weekly Advert: March 2019
When EU interference becomes toxic
EU fraudulently harassing British innovation in degradable plastics
Advert: European Parliament Update - March 2019
Commission has a horrible way of putting EU legislation ahead of British legislation
Farmers Weekly Advert: February 2019
Advert: European Parliament Update - February 2019
Brexit: Stop political posturing and start negotiating a trade deal now
Animal transport legislation not enforced in parts of Europe
Green lobby cannot have it both ways
Are Australian farmers required to reduce production in order to get subsidies?
Farmers Guardian Article
Farmers Weekly Advert: January 2019
Advert: European Parliament Update - January 2019
No-Deal Brexit under WTO rules will benefit UK not EU
Stuart Agnew tells AGRI Commissioner new breeding methods needed to tackle colder weather ahead
Stuart Agnew briefs agriculture minister on handling Romania's EU council presidency
By which treaty did the EU gain power over our clocks?
Stuart Agnew schools EU committees on forests, carbon and CO2
Stuart Agnew addresses biotechnology fears and land confiscation at 'Africa Summit 2019'
Global temperatures drop for third year running
EU competition rules bind only those who abide by them
EU Commission admits that some member states are restricting food imports from other member states
EU court boosts GM imports by restricting plant breeding techniques
Farmers Weekly Advert: December 2018
Advert: European Parliament Update - December 2018
Treasured National Leftie Goes Bananas
The futility of forcing farmers to change the weather
Farmers Weekly Advert: November 2018
Green lobby folly reduces food production
Advert: European Parliament Update - November 2018
EU farmers performance report will cost a fortune
Commission rep kicks can down the road on farming contradiction
Auditing farmers' performance in changing the weather
Helping African farmers includes stopping farm murders in South Africa
The Green lobby's paradise of tick-infested wildlife and human disease
US must give up posturing power-politics and work with US on Iran
Will French farmers be given competitive edge over British farmers?
Post-Brexit Irish border issues are not insuperable
Advert: European Parliament Update - October 2018 (2)
Farmers Guardian Brexit Article
Farmers Weekly Advert: October 2018
EU regulation renders British livestock producers uncompetitive at global level
EU trying to push out UK biodegradable technology
Advert: European Parliament Update - October 2018 (1)
Labour MEPs dream of keeping UK in EU Single Market post-Brexit
Stuart Agnew's Opinion on Climate Action amended beyond recognition at committee stage
EU regulating re-used water for irrigation
Paying farmers to produce less
Brexit is on everyone's lips in Ireland
British firm defrauded in Romania gets no redress
MEPs reject EFDD group motion to debate audiovisual media directive before they actually vote on it
Farmers Weekly Advert: September 2018
EU's unfair trading directive deemed unfair by both retailers and processors
Farmers finding it hard to access regional development funds
Advert: European Parliament Update - September 2018
Farmers Guardian Brexit Article
Foreign MEPs seeking to extinguish British innovation
Green lobby preventing new breeding techniques that reduce antibiotics use
Farmers Weekly Advert: August 2018
Stuart Agnew, decimates EU's Climate Action programme
Rise in farm fatalities requires attention
Allow innovation to flourish
Hard truths about pesticides
The precautionary principle stifles innovation
Advert: Stuart Agnew MEP at Aylsham Show
Advert: European Parliament Update - August 2018
Advert: European Parliament Update - July 2018
Farmers Weekly Advert: July 2018
Farmers Guardian Brexit Article
Spanish Upland Farms
Will EU Directive on unfair trading in food supply chain cut across what we're already doing in UK?
You can only get money if you change the world's weather
No meaningful progress on Brexit
Food safety is not just about pesticides
Farmers Weekly Advert: June 2018
Advert: European Parliament Update - June 2018
Socialists and Greens furious over Agnew victory in AGRI Committee
Sugar beet industry in Finland gone downhill
Invest in bio-security not agricultural climate action that takes up 40% of CAP budget
Will UK get dead money on its EIB investments after Brexit?
EU should wait on outcome of US sanctions before blundering into Iran
Failure of Bulgarian Justice System
Farmers forced to measure vapours and gases to improve world climate
Advert: European Parliament Update - May 2018
A move towards buying British farm produce
EU plan for young farmers fraught with red tape and open to abuse
Farmers Guardian Brexit Article
Assessing sewage sludge fertiliser at AGRI committee
Climate is driven by natural factors and there's nothing the Green lobby can do to stop that
Frankenstein breeding techniques circulating in organic food chain
What the EU AGRI mission to Brazil failed to ask
Classic contradictions in EU 'climate action' for Agriculture
UKIP Policy on Control of Bovine TB
Farmers Weekly Advert: May 2018
Changing attitudes is key to reducing farm accidents
Advert: European Parliament Update - April 2018
Bracken is dangerous to animals, people and water supplies
Where have our birds gone?
No way to run an agricultural policy
EU legislation on organic farming creates anomalies and contradictions
EU Greenhouse Gas Contradictions
Post-Brexit transition period could undermine Groceries Code Adjudicator
Farmers Guardian Brexit Article
Advert: European Parliament Update - March 2018
Farmers Weekly Advert: March 2018
How a German corporation dealt with a small English firm it couldn't compete with
EU-banned cultural goods imported by asylum seekers
IMCO committee rejects Commission proposal for internal market Directive on goods and services
A glaring example of the single market not working
Animal welfare: put your house in order first
Fiddled Brazilian lab tests underline the benefits of home produced meat
Across the EU people want to keep trading with Britain after Brexit
EU commission to define 'family farm' towards future of food and farming
Sugar beet seed dressing cannot affect bees - why ban it?
There must be some colossal overspending in the EU budget, somewhere
Future of farming in the EU an administrative nightmare
EU's fight against antimicrobial resistance needs carrot more than stick (Brussels - 22.02.18)
EU getting bolder on direct taxation
Advert: European Parliament Update - February 2018
Situation in Zimbabwe
Geo-blocking
Advert: European Parliament Update - January 2018
EU has no competence in forestry and yet they debate on legislation
EU banning of pesticide materials is a lose-lose situation
Yet another area where EU Commission pushes forward with their political agenda
Electro-Fishing; Dutch breaching EU Rules
CAP young farmers’ tools in the EU
Antibiotics use in livestock farming undermined by imports
Payment adjustment scheme for farmers is a bureaucratic nightmare
The EU wants each farmer to have annual programme on climate change
Advert: European Parliament Update - December 2017
CAP Reform
UK fishing waters post-Brexit
EU Integrated Farm Statistics
Complicit in a Commission power grab
You'll never stop CO2 cycle, and if you do, you'll stall growth of trees
Advert: European Parliament Update - November 2017
Luring young farmers with subsidised schemes guarantees no entrepreneurship
EU schemes for young farmers susceptible to fraud
Turning farmers into civil servants
The EU, China and Farmers in Africa
The Sheep Sector
EU Taxation on a Mission
GM Soya Beans
Plant Breeders have every right to safeguard their Intellectual Property
NATO airbrushed from Committee Debate
EU Regulation of Professions
Glyphosate
Glyphosate is not Hazardous
Anti-Microbial Resistance
Assumption that British taxpayers will have to pay for Brexit has no legal basis
Brexit: 100 billion-euro demand is losing us time on trade talks
EU Budget consequences of Brexit
Protein Crops
Advert: European Parliament Update - October 2017 (2)
CE Marked Fertilising Products
Glyphosate: 'War against chemicals is a shame on science'
Advert: European Parliament Update - October 2017 (1)
African Swine Fever
Sheep Farmers and Brexit
Climate contradictions of EU dogma
Tackling EU Farm Subsidies to Change the World's Weather
EU Shooting Itself in Both Feet
814 Million Euros Misspent in EU Agriculture Direct Payments
Advert: European Parliament Update - September 2017
Labour Party and The Withdrawal Bill
Fiprinol Egg Scandal
Political Correctness causing enormous damage to the safety of women
Cancelled: Young Independence Conference
Why I am backing Ann Marie Waters as next leader of UKIP
Advert: European Parliament Update - August 2017
Advert: European Parliament Update - July 2017
Retirement of Roger Helmer MEP
The many contradictions of EU 'Conservation Agriculture'
A trillion euros down the route of utter madness
A Union Act that may, or may not strengthen the position of farmers in the food supply chain
You can breed and patent an improved variety, but can you patent a new species?
Waiting for Mr Agnew!
CAP implementation bogged down in complexity for farmers
EU support for young farmers is just a stitch-up
Don't shaft the Scots!
The protection of organic farming should be left to Member States
Obscene voting speed renders European Parliament a complete farce
Grenfell Tower Fire and EU Green Policies
Advert: European Parliament Update - June 2017
Exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work
CO2 is an essential plant food and we need it badly
Soil quality is not a competence of the European Union
Farming Ammonia Reduction Grant Scheme
Potential problems in EU scheme on unfair trading in food supply chain
Glyphosate and Authorisation Procedures
GENERAL ELECTION: FELTHAM & HESTON RESULTS
MGBA News Interview - Violence Against Women
UKIP CANDIDATE: FELTHAM & HESTON
Vilifying Carbon Dioxide
The Future of Food and Agriculture
What is the European beekeeper doing wrong?
What is going wrong with bees in Europe?
Advert: European Parliament Update - May 2017
EU-Norway Agreement
"Hold your nerve against these people - they just want to stop farming"
EU Tax to fill Brexit Budget Gap
Protein Crops
Flippant committee chairman turns voting farce into Brexit joke
Advert: European Parliament Update - April 2017
Limestone and Calcium Deposits
€30 billion a year on climate action
Organic Farming
Definition of 'Consumer'
Field-scale trials tell us something, lab tests and Green lobby tell us very little
Global Warming: Assured by Prof. Hook, Dr Line and Mr Sinker
GM Crops and Organic Farmers
Brazilian Meat
Advert: European Parliament Update - March 2017
Glyphosate Update
Katie Hopkins on the London Terror Attack
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Food Safety
Reverting to methods that produce less food will kill more people
Black Grass
Importing food from outside the EU that we are banned to grow inside the EU
Organic Farming and Ongoing Trilogue Negotiations
Food Hypocrisy
Farmers 'Income Insurance'
Global Warming is About Destroying Capitalism?
Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change
EU Milk Market
Advert: European Parliament Update - February 2017
GM Chickens That Don't Transmit Bird Flu
Rabbit Farming
Advert: Strasbourg Update - January 2017
A firestorm called Avian Flu
Level playing field hypocrisy
Non-GM Soya
Do we need EU legislation on organic farming?
CAP is becoming unworkable
Agricultural Markets Task Force
Advert: Strasbourg Update - December 2016
EU Port Services Regulation
Support for Thalidomide victims
Review of the paediatric medicines regulation
Report on CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets
EU Free Movement Gone Wrong
We cannot change the world's weather!
Who decides what 'sustainable farming' is?
What about the biggest 'greenhouse gas' of all: water vapour?
Advert: Strasbourg Update - November 2016
Luke Flanagan: Get Ireland Out of the EU
Are Slovenian farmers moving to non-EU Serbia?
New plant breeding techniques vs. GMO
The EU imports 30 million tonnes a year of GM soya
Future of rural development in Europe: Local First!
Money going astray?
Shortage of CO2
Resource efficient and innovative agriculture
Who said Brexit wasn't good for business!
Emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants
Forest Strategy
Supply of fruit, vegetables and milk in educational establishments
Plant Diseases
Horse meat and food labelling
Agricultural challenges in the EU post 2020
Soil Function and Crop Productivity
Turning Gender Discrimination the other way round
Advert: Strasbourg Update - October 2016
Pest Control
How much for an EU official to do nothing until retirement?
Lyoness Cash Back Scheme
Trade Outside Europe and Freedom of Movement
Endocrine Disruptors
If you ban DDT you might as well ban contraceptive pills
African Swine Fever
UK Land Tenure
EU aiming to control farmland ownership
Taxpayers money for farmers to produce less?!
You won't solve tomorrow's problems with yesterday's methods
It's not the weather that's causing farmers to worry
Getting rural development grants to house new migrants will be very easy
What’s the likelihood of cheaper food prices post-Brexit?
Food Contacts Material Legislation
Women in Agriculture
Pollutants and Farming
Advert: Strasbourg Update - September 2016
Brexit and Slipper Farming
Protection of Farm Rabbits
Stuart Agnew MEP on Victoria Derbyshire programme
EU Farming Funds
Price Volatility in Agricultural Markets
EU Competition Policy
Paying dairy farmers to produce less
Advert: Strasbourg Update - August 2016
Unviable Land
Organic Farming and Pesticides
'Agri-Environment Climate Scheme' and 'Climate Resilient Agriculture'
Anti-Sugar Campaign
EU meddling in the Sugar Market
'Freedom of Movement' is not required for access to the (EU) Single Market
Brexit, Agriculture and the CAP
Dairy Crisis
Brexit offers unique opportunity to revitalise UK farming
Bogus Development Projects
Mercosur/EU Trade Agreement
Increasing Employment in Rural Areas
Stability in Prices and Supplies
The EU’s Impact on UK Dairy Farming
Brexit offers ‘unique opportunity’ to revitalise UK farming
Albania and the EU
Glyphosate Pesticide Ban
Advert: Strasbourg Update - March 2016
Viability of biomass
Reducing price volatility in agricultural markets
Views on pesticides
Brexit funds
Dynamics of smaller farms
UK Referendum - Future Certainties
EU Debate - Agri Expo, Kent County Showground
Advert: Strasbourg Update - February 2016
Advert: Strasbourg Update - January 2016
Advert: Strasbourg Update - December 2015
Patents and Plant Breeders' Rights
Plant Breeders and Large Corporations
Advert: Strasbourg Update - November 2015
Swedish organic farmers under threat from EU rules
Exchange of views with US Secretary for Agriculture
Back-door trade with Russia
Only the biggest corporations can afford EU-inflicted costs
Animal Welfare in Europe
Advert: Strasbourg Update - October 2015
Advert: Strasbourg Update - October 2015
GM Protein
Advert: Agricultural Review (EDP) - October 2015
Brussels tries land grab on British Agriculture
Agriculture TTIP deal hidden from view in windowless cell
Patentability of plant traits
Undermining the capability of food production in Africa
Linking EU farm subsidies to productivity
British farm supply co-ops
EU: Land-grabbing
Feeding an Overcrowded Britain
EU 'common forestry policy'?
Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid
Distribution of the Dairy Crisis targeted support payments
Advert: Strasbourg Update - September 2015
Ongoing crisis in the Agriculture Sector
Kerry McCarthy appointed Shadow DEFRA Secretary
Animal Slaughter Regulation
Animal Cloning
Advert: Strasbourg Update - August 2015
Advert: Strasbourg Update - July 2015
Invitation to Luxembourg's agriculture minister to visit UK farms
Cross-border threat of African Swine Fever
Organic Farming
Genetically Modified Food and Feed
Outrage as Europe fines UK £642m for poor accounting in DEFRA
Review of the implementation of the Dairy Package
Advert: Strasbourg Update - June 2015
Proposed EU regulations on animal breeding
EU meddling is dissolving the sugar industry
Medicated animal feed - EU regulation
Distribution of veterinary medicines in the UK
Problems with importing non-GM animal feed
Commission assumes mantel of deity in fund disbursement
Advert: Strasbourg Update - May 2015
Exchange of views with agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan
250m euros a year for a thimbleful of milk each school day and a sliver of an apple
Moldova and Georgia's privileged status
Brazil could put our entire livestock industry out of business
EU making it virtually impossible to farm organically
Cloning of farm animals
Stuart Agnew MEP - Exeter - 01.05.15
How to fail in 'feeding the planet'
Stuart Agnew MEP - Acle - 28.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Brampton, Norwich - 24.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Morpeth, Northumberland - 23.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Mustard TV Debate - 22.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Felixstowe - 22.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP to visit Aylsham High School - 15.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Dereham - 13.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Taverham - 10.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Fakenham - 09.04.15
NFU Dairy Farm Visit - 01.04.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Worcester - 31.03.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Christchurch - 30.03.15
Stuart Agnew at Thorpe St Andrew School Question Time event - 27.03.15
Stuart Agnew MEP - Sittingbourne - 27.03.15
Stuart Agnew MEP in St Ives - 26.03.15
Stuart Agnew MEP in Aylsham
Advert: Strasbourg Update - March 2015
Stuart Agnew MEP takes part in Fakenham College Question Time event
Stuart Agnew MEP takes part in Fakenham Churches Together Cross-Party Debate
Stuart Agnew MEP in Biggleswade
Stuart Agnew MEP takes part in APGAW Question Time event
Stuart Agnew MEP in Ripon
Stuart Agnew MEP in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Stuart Agnew MEP speaks at NFU Shropshire County Meeting
Stuart Agnew MEP in Wales
Stuart Agnew MEP takes part in TTIP debate
Stuart Agnew MEP takes part in the NFU Conference Party Political General Election Debate
Advert: Strasbourg Update - February 2015
Stuart Agnew MEP in Blofield, Norfolk
Stuart Agnew MEP in Devon - 06.02.15
Stuart Agnew MEP in Wiltshire/ Dorset - 05.02.15
Stuart Agnew MEP in Gloucester/ Wiltshire - 04.02.15
Stuart Agnew MEP in North Somerset - 03.02.15
Stuart Agnew MEP in North Cornwall - 02.02.15
My Personal Involvement with GM Crops - Update
Advert: Strasbourg Update - January 2015
Advert: Strasbourg Update - December 2014
Advert: Strasbourg Update - November 2014
Advert: Agricultural Review - November 2014
Advert: Strasbourg Update - October 2014
Eastern UKIP MEPs condemn Richard Howitt smear
Stuart Agnew MEP re-commits to the Back British Farming Charter
Happy St George's Day
Stuart Agnew: Prime Minister’s pride over £11.4 billion foreign aid spend is ‘sadly misplaced’
Stuart Agnew MEP appears with Thalidomide survivor in committee meetings (07.14.14)
Stuart Agnew MEP: A Personal Involvement with GM Crops (April 2014)
UKIP to launch its East of England European Election campaign in Norwich (31.03.14)
UKIP uncovers TB epidemic at Cambridgeshire vegetable packaging plant
Video of Stuart Agnew's talk in Shaftesbury - 07.03.14
New Agriculture Leaflet - Putting UK farmers first
Cross-Party Group to call another County Council EGM to Terminate the Willows Incinerator Contract
UKIP kicks off its Euro campaign in Braintree
How do we know the numbers? Stuart Agnew MEP questions whether migrants arriving from Romania and Bulgaria are being counted
New poll confirms Great Yarmouth as UKIP target seat
Romanian Parliament breaks EU law on corruption - Stuart Agnew MEP calls for reciprocal action from the British Government
Agriculture Commissioner gives MEP unusual assurances on conditions for sheep headage payments (20.11.13)
Stuart Agnew MEP slams EU legislation that imposes 40% gender quotas on company boards
EU’s accounts fail to please the auditors for 19th consecutive year
The European Commission sucks more than our vacuum cleaners!
Stuiart Agnew MEP speaks up for UK farmers struggling with EID sheep tagging regulations
Commission to regulate flushing of toilets and urinals (29.10.13)
Start Agnew MEP slams culture of fear in British fishing community (22.10.13)
Report on Tariffs and Quotas - October 2013
Rural Terrorism in Norfolk
Stuart Agnew MEP speaks up for nation states having control of regional branding
Stuart Agnew MEP raises “Toxic” issue of EU having its own foreign policy and making foreign ministers redundant
Stuart Agnew MEP condemns EU for attempting to distort British democracy in 2014 euro election
Stuart Agnew MEP accuses French supermarket of trawling endangered species close to extinction
Euro Parliament rejects motion to seek legal opinion on dubious date change for 2014 European Election
Stuart Agnew MEP slams Commission for dunking a ‘witch’
Good luck to all UKIP candidates
Stuart Agnew MEP attacks ‘mad’ EU biofuel policy (24.04.13)
Happy St George's Day!
Stuart Agnew berates European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee
Chaos in European Parliament as President faints and controversial Agri Report is voted through
Paterson as “impotent as a bullock or a gelding" in horsemeat scandal
Decision making on CAP reform “a series of shambolic compromises”
Stuart Agnew MEP describes European Parliament as an “elected dictatorship”
MEP highlights scandal of solar farm on 900 acres of prime farm land -
UKIP MEP tells Cypriot Agriculture Minister some home truths about CAP reform
David Cameron ‘fiddles while the EU burns our country’
Every MEP in Brussels costs an 'eye watering' THREE times more than MPs in Westminster
Mark Lynas: Why I became pro-GM
MEPs hit out at Peterborough City Council’s plan to build a 900 acre wind/solar farm on prime agricultural land
Tory District Councillor defects to UKIP
MEP accuses the EU of 'gesture politics' on welfare of animals in transit
EU membership “compels us to find homes for travellers says MEP”
MEP convinces farmers that they don't need the EU
UKIP MEP clashes with German Green MEP over organic farming
MEP says EU is “far too big to have a Common Agricultural Policy”