Plant Impact Application to Join Committee Successful
August 13 2009 - 4:18AM
Dow Jones News
Plant Impact (PIM.LN), a developer of technologies that improve
crop productivity, announced Thursday that its application to join
the U.K. Parliamentary and Scientific Committee as an industrial
member has been successful.
MAIN FACTS:
-The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee is Westminster's
oldest all party associate committee.
-The 360 strong membership comprises 153 peers, MPs and MEPs
together with 207 non Parliamentary bodies.
-Industry members on the committee include Pfizer (PFE),
Monsanto (MON), Merck Sharp () and Dome, AstraZeneca (AZN.LN), BASF
and the Crop Protection Association.
-Plant Impact is the sole SME on the committee with technology
focused on crop production in the agricultural sector.
-The Committee's principle remit is to provide an interface
between Parliamentarians and the U.K.'s scientific communities,
ensuring that the former are aware of new developments in science
relevant to policy and that the latter are informed of priorities
and interests in the development of policy and legislation relevant
to scientific sectors.
-The Committee plays a pivotal role in the identification of
scientific issues that Parliament should address and is used by
members representing scientific organisations to raise the profile
of the sector's concerns.
-Recommendations may then be taken up by individual MPs,
relevant Select Committees or form the basis of Parliamentary
inquiries.
-By London Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires; Contact Ian Walker; +44 (0)20 7842 9296; ian.walker@dowjones.com