Plant Varieties & Seeds
Improved plant varieties and good quality seeds are essential for safe, reliable and efficient crop and food production. These pages provide information on Plant Breeders Rights, National Listing and Seed Certification Services to plant breeders and the seeds industry.
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20 October 2008:
- PVS Committees: a report of the 82nd National Lists and Seeds Committee (PDF 25 KB) has been published.
- Protocols and procedures for tests and trials: the VCU procedures for Data Review, Standard Setting and Decision Making together with Guidance notes have produced.
30 September 2008:
- Consultation: The Conservation Varieties Directive Consultation on behalf of England and Wales was launched today. If you would like to comment on the implementation of this Directive, would you please do so by e-mail, ( conservation.varieties@defra.gsi.gov.uk ), in writing or by fax, to Fiona Hopkins, Plant Variety Rights Office, Whitehouse Lane, Cambridge, CB3 0LF, Fax: 01223 342386, no later than Tuesday 23 December 2008.
- September edition of Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette has been published.
26 September 2008:
- Transposition of Directive 2008/83/EC - this notice announces the administrative implementation in the UK of Commission Directive 2008/83/EC from 1 October 2008.
- Information on the policy work carried out by PVS is now available.
9 September 2008: Protocols and procedures for tests and trials: the DUS protocol for Wheat (PDF 100KB) and the VCU procedures for Trial Inspection and Technical Validation (PDF 47 KB) have been updated.
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