Plant Varieties & Seeds

This office provides: Plant Breeders Rights, National Listing and Seed Certification Services to plant breeders and the seeds industry.

What's New?

(Announcements that are older than three months but still relevant, are retained on the - What's New - Archive)

10/07/2006

UK - Seed Certification - Information Letters 2006

10/07/06 SC 5/06 - Increase in the maximum size of cereal seed lots (25KB)

28/06/2006

A letter has been issued to all Licensed Crop Inspectors, Seed Samplers and Seed Testing Stations in England clarifying the position regarding inspections, sampling or testing seed in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales. If the licence holder carries out certification activities in those Authorities then they must comply with the legal requirements for certification in that Authority.

26/06/2006

Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette:-

The June edition has now been published.

22/06/2006

New fees for Plant Breeders' Rights of ornamental species will come into effect on 1st September. (40KB)

14/06/2006

The consultation on the Increase in Maximum Weight of Cereal Seed Lots (excluding Maize) - Consequential Amendment of the Cereal Seed (England) Regulations 2002 closed on 2 June 2006. A summary of the responses can be found here.

05/06/2006

New fees for NL/PBR came into effect on 29 May 2006

08/05/2006

UK - Seed Certification - Information Letters 2006

08/5/06 SC 4/06 - DEROGATIONS - New Authorisation Procedure (50KB)

08/5/06 SC 3/06 - Consent For Disclosure Of Seed Certificaton Data To The Central Science Laboratory (CSL) (50KB)

30/04/06

The Acceptance Of Late Entered Seed Lots And Crops Without Control Plots Of The Sown Seed Procedure (18KB)

26/04/2006

Plant Varieties and Seeds

18/04/2006

Plant Varieties and Seeds

Terms of Reference and Report of February NLSC has been published.

06/04/2006

DUS Swede Protocol

Revised Protocol has been published.

06/04/2006

DUS Winter Oilseed Rape and Fodder Rape Protocols

Revised Protocols have been published.

05/04/2006

VCU Procedures and Protocols

Revised Spring Oilseed Rape Procedures and Protocols for 2006 harvest have been published.

03/04/2006

UK - Seed Certification - Information Letters 2006

SC 2/06 - Official Supervision of Licenced Seed Testing Stations, Plant Passports (100KB)

30/03/2006

VCU Procedures

Revised procedures have been published for Sugar Beet VCU procedures (150KB)

21/03/2006

The revised Cereal (wheat, barley, oats, triticale, rye and spelt wheat) VCU Procedures has been published (267KB)

15/03/2006

The revised Cereal Protocol (wheat, barley, oats, triticale, rye and spelt wheat) have been published (70KB)