Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are a few things in this amendment that we've looked at. For the most part it's repeating a lot of the exclusive rights of the breeder and what the farmers' privilege then allows the farmer. For instance, paragraph 5.3(c) says “sell, for uses other than propagation...”. If you go back to proposed paragraph 5(1)(c), the breeder's right is exclusively “to sell propagating material of the variety.” So the sale of the harvested material is already out. I think that's why the amendment was phrased as “For greater certainty...”. It may be adding all the different rights into that one place.
However, I think there is one element that is outside of the “For greater certainty...”. It's in (3), which says, “without having to pay any further royalties,” which may impact the ability to have regulations in different sectors that would address an end-point royalty scheme. In our opinion, that little bit in subclause 5(3) may not allow for those regulations to be made.