seed donation
Uli via pbs (Mon, 10 May 2021 09:03:27 PDT)

Dear All,

Further to my email to the list I want to write that it was never my
intention to offend anybody who had in fact re-donated material to the
BX which I had sent before, hopefully I could solve this by private
correspondence. I want to raise awareness that I might not be able to
donate seed in the future due to the legal frame in my new home country
Portugal. Different EU countries may handle the new rules differently,
i.e. more liberally but here I am confronted with a stiff bureaucracy.

The problem is not getting seed into the USA, so the discussion about
small lots import licence does not help. The problem is getting it out
of the EU. Importing seeds INTO the EU has become practically impossible
by Jan 1st 2020, and from Jan 1st 2021 exporting OUT  of the EU is
practically impossible for private entities. A private person will not
get a phytosanitary certificate which is now required for exporting any
plant material including seed. The donation of bulbs to the USA has
become impossible for quite some time due to US legislation. I am of
course writing about the official legal frame. Inside the EU everything
remains possible so I am only too glad we set up an EU-BX. The loss of
the United Kingdom due to Brexit is another point to digest, though.

My email also did not have the intention  to want plants back. This of
course can happen but I would not do it this way.

This is an appeal to grow on and share what you have. I do not criticize
anybody who loses plants, who am I? But be aware of a world getting
narrower and poorer every day, species getting lost every day, so you
may have something that is more precious than you might think. Grow it
on and share it!

Bye for now

Uli

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