Certainly. You have to remember that when you talk about a number of countries using the UPOV system, you have 27 member states in the European Commission. That's almost one third of the countries in the world that use UPOV. They're a heavily subsidized agricultural production system. UPOV 91 was introduced only a year or two ago in France, and there were widespread protests. Nevertheless, farmers have difficulty with seed-saving. There are restrictions on access to seed-cleaning equipment in France, in terms of building new plants, which is a key part of the seed system that's a big worry in this UPOV element.
We're talking about a system that actually does increase costs to farmers, which is not universally accepted, however accepting governments are of it in certain jurisdictions as a function of some trade agreements and extensive lobbies from certain parties.