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"Mr President, the subject of parallel trading in agricultural pesticides has become a paradise for lawyers.
On the one hand, we have large corporations doing everything they can to stop entrepreneurs legally taking advantage of parallel trading. This can extend to using interesting techniques to persuade the relevant authorities to harass and intimidate such entrepreneurs in an attempt to force them out of business.
A case in my constituency recently witnessed the health and safety executive raiding the premises of a parallel trader and confiscating the family photograph album of the managing director as evidence for wrongdoing. In their excitement, these raiders accidentally left their battle plan on the director’s desk. The document clearly implicated a large corporation.
On the other hand, we have those individuals who use parallel trading as a front to place counterfeit agrichemicals on the market. These may well be sub-standard, causing serious problems for the purchaser and the undermining of confidence in the product in general.
The 20-year patent limit is not working as intended. It is creating unintended consequences."@en1
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