Industrial plants (including seeds for herbaceous oil-seed plants; excluding seeds for fibre plants, hops, tobacco and other industrial plants), of which:

The positive points of the proposal include: (a) the introduction of a new definition for marketing which covers all entrepreneurial activities involving the marketing of propagating material and fruit plants, (b) the extension of the definition of 'supplier' to include the importer, (c) the implementation of certification in accordance with international systems of certification and identification of varieties based on the protocols of the Community Plant Variety Office and the guidelines for the protection of New Varieties of Plant and (d) an examination of plant health issues in accordance with the provisions of Directive 2000/29.

(C) The production of propagating material is an important activity in Spain (with some 590 million plants), Italy (360 million plants), the Netherlands (240 million plants), France (140 million plants) and the United Kingdom which has 29 000 hectares producing propagating material.

(15) Suppliers who only market fruit plants or propagating material to persons not professionally engaged in the production or sale of fruit plants or propagating material should be exempted from the obligation of registration.

3. The Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products shall establish Community herbal monographs for herbal medicinal products with regard to the application of Article 10(1)(a)(ii) as well as traditional herbal medicinal products.

People who had been working for years with the first nations felt that the royal commission report was an incredible offering made by a standing committee composed of first nations representatives and non-aboriginal representatives, an incredible lifeline tendered to allow us to climb out of a historical quagmire and start again in an environment of mutual respect and harmonious relations.