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 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>