Brussels, 22 December 2023 As of 1 January 2024, Corné van Beers (53) will be appointed as General Director of Breeders Trust Ltd company located in Brussels. Corné succeeds Geert Staring, who has reached his retirement age. Breeders Trust was founded in 2008 and currently consists of 12 leading European seed potato breeding companies. Since[…]
Brussels, November 16th 2023: the German seed company P.H. Petersen Saatzucht Lundsgaard GmbH recently joined the Brussels-based Breeders Trust at the autumn meeting. It was recently held on Malta, where the members agreement was signed. Matz Petersen, general director of the German P.H. Petersen Saatzucht Lundsgaard GmbH states: ‘I am proud of becoming a member[…]
Brussels, December 6th 2022: The Brussels-based Breeders Trust represents the interests of plant breeders rights of the most prominent Western European grass seeds breeding and trading companies. Breeders Trust states that in recent years they repeatedly came to the conclusion that certified seed of one of the biggest selling perennial ryegrass varieties, namely Bokser, in[…]
Joint P R E S S R E L E A S E Marknesse – Brussels, 25 June 2020: the Brussels-based Breeders Trust today signed a major contract with Geo4A, a subsidiary of the Austrian company GeoVille. GeoVille specialises in the data processing of satellite images and is a leader in the field within Western[…]
On October 12, 2019, Geert Staring, general director of Breeders was interviewed by ‘European Seed’: European Seed is the premier issues forum for seed industry leaders. In an recently held interview with Marcel Bruins (editorial director) in Stockholm, Geert Staring explains where Breeders Trust stands for and how he looks at illegalities, infringement and enforcement[…]
Scheemda – Brussels, July 4 2019: Vandinter Semo in Scheemda has joined the Brussels-based Breeders Trust as an associate grass seed member as of July 1 2019. Vandinter Semo is specialised in the production and worldwide trade of mainly grass, mustard and fodder radish seeds and fully endorses the importance of fair production and trade[…]
Biddinghuizen – Brussels Mai 24 2019: In order to continue growing its ambitious, internationally-oriented breeding program responsibly, the family-run company SCHAAP HOLLAND B.V. in Biddinghuizen, acquired 5% of the Brussels-based Breeders Trust shares earlier this week. Breeders Trust was founded in 2008 to monitor the enforcement of Plant Breeders’ Rights. Every year, millions of euros[…]
Geert Staring, Direttore Generale di Breeders Trust, spiega quali sono il background e il perché della normativa europea per la regolamentazione dei “semi autoprodotti in azienda” o“semi aziendali” di patata (Farm Saved Seed), che deve essere tenuta ben presente da ogni agrcoltore itliano che all’interno della propria azienda agricola intenda riutilizzare il seme autoriprodotto di[…]
Bruxelles – 2 dicembre 2014. L’Autorità portoghese per la sicurezza alimentare ASAE, dopo un’accurata indagine condotta da Breeders Trust che ha sede in Belgio, ha sequestrato 21.000 chilogrammi di sementi di graminacee foraggere recanti cartellini ufficiali polacchi contraffatti. La frode riguarda almeno 3 varietà di loietto italico commercializzate in diversi paesi, Portogallo e Francia compresi.[…]
L’accordo consentirà di aumentare l’efficacia dei controlli in relazione alla commercializzazione illegale di sementi e, più in generale, di materiale di moltiplicazione appartenente a colture agrarie ed ortive, tramite una stretta collaborazione tra le istituzioni pubbliche e le associazioni di categoria.
Bruxelles, 28 agosto 2013. Nella giornata di oggi, Breeders Trust ha firmato l’ultimo accordo transattivo con una azienda agricola Italiana che aveva propagato senza autorizzazione una varieta’ di patata protetta da titolo di privativa comunitaria. Oltre a quest’ultimo accordo, Breeders Trust ha siglato in tutto otto (8) differenti accordi transattivi con otto (8) differenti aziende[…]
