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Decree inscribing some horticultural and agricultural species in the National Plant Variety Registry.

Country/Territory
Italy
Document type
Regulation
Date
1999
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana No. 51,3 March 1999.
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Plant production Classification/declassification Planting material/seeds Intellectual property rights/patents
Geographical area
Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Mediterranean, Southern Europe
Abstract

The Decree approves the regulation making provisions for the implementation and integration of Act No. 1096 of 25 November 1971. The text of the regulation is provided in the annex. The regulation concerns the issue by the President of the Chamber of Commerce of the authorization to the production of seeds. It also makes provisions in matter of intellectual property rights, packaging and labelling of seeds and establishes the procedure to be followed for the registration of new seeds varieties by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to be published in the Official Gazette. Articles 21-36 concern the criteria and the requirements for the certification and classification of propagating material.

Full text
Italian

References - Legislation

Implements

Presidential Decree No. 1065 governing the production and trade of seeds.

Legislation | Italy | 1973

Keyword: Plant production, Planting material/seeds, Standards, Intellectual property rights/patents, Packaging/labelling, Classification/declassification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX