Plant reproductive material: production and making available on the market

The European Parliament adopted by 511 votes to 136 with 16 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the production and making available on the market of plant reproductive material (plant reproductive material law).

Parliament, on first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure, had rejected the Commission proposal, and called on the Commission to withdraw its proposal and submit a new one.

To recall, the proposal aims to consolidate and update legislation on the marketing of the material reproduction of plants (MRV) by repealing and replacing twelve existing directives.

In its resolution, Parliament referred to the reasoned opinions submitted, within the framework of Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, by the Austrian Federal Council and the Netherlands House of Representatives, asserting that the draft legislative act does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity.