The European Commission (DG SANCO) is presently working on the review of the legislation on the Marketing of Seed and Propagating Material (S&PM).This review is a unique opportunity to improve biodiversity, consumers choice and to enhance the situation of diversity-farmers and seed savers.The current legal framework on S&PM has contributed to a massive loss of varietal agro-biodiversity within the last few decades. Furthermore, it has favored high-yield-by-high-input agriculture. It has fostered the concentration process in the seed sector and has led to increasing dependence of farmers and other seed users on industrial seeds.

In an Open Letter, addressed to the Commission and EU Parliamentarians, Save Our Seeds togehter with a number of other organizations representing civil society now demand for a decided improvement of the EU legislation on seeds, with regards to the environment, but also consumers and farmers demands for more biodiversity on the fields and tables.