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