This optional provision is known as the "farmers' privilege.

Codification of the farmer’s privilege and the research exception.

This optional provision is known as the "farmers' privilege.

This optional provision is known as the "farmers' privilege.

These amendments would include farmers' privilege, which allows farmers to use seeds from the crops they grow.

The farmers' privilege provision in C-18 does not include stocking seed.

The new legislation includes Farmers’ Privilege, allowing farmers to continue to save and reuse seeds for replanting on their own farms.

Will amendments to Canada's Plant Breeders' Rights Act to conform to the 1991 UPOV Convention (UPOV 91) eliminate the "farmers' privilege"?

Worse, Section 50(4) of Bill C-18 enables the Governor in Council (ie Cabinet) to make regulations to put even more limits on the farmers’ privilege provisions.

Canada adopted the Farmer's Privilege as part of the suite of UPOV 91 amendments in order to allow farmers to continue this practice of saving and reusing seed.

— we are still concerned that the bill can introduce regulations that may withdraw or restrict the farmers' privilege on a crop-by-crop basis or for specific groups of farmers.