Plant Impact Application to Join Committee Successful

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; [phone]; [e-mail]