Thank you, Chair.
It's in clause 5 and it's going to be amended by adding line 6, on page 7. This is what's going to be in the line:
(3) For greater certainty, a farmer who has acquired the rights referred to in paragraphs 5(1)(a) and (b) in respect of the propagating material of a plant variety may, without having to pay any further royalties
(a) stock and condition the propagating material and any harvested material derived from the propagating material;
(b) make repeated use of the harvested material on his or her holdings for the purposes of propagating the plant variety; and
(c) sell, for uses other than propagation, harvested material that is derived from the propagating material.
Chair, and colleagues, this pretty well sums it up: farmers have a right to stock and condition the so-called propagated material; they can repeatedly use it for harvested material, so they can replant it for the following year; and they can also sell it to a farmer down the road, say, if there's a hog farmer who's going to be using it for feed. Of course, this does not mean using it for propagation, because they can't sell it to another farmer for seed.
I think this sums it up and really defines that, yes, the farmer who has this seed and has harvested it can use it for whatever they want to use it for, and that they also can sell it to the farmer down the road for feed. I think this would give a lot of clarification and would help many the witnesses who were here. I don't sense that this would change the intent of the UPOV legislation as put forward.