Ministerial Decree No. 289 containing the regulation on the institution of the Voluntary Certification Service on the plant propagating material. Pays/Territoire Italie Type du document Règlement Date 1991 Source FAO, FAOLEX Source d'origine Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana No. 209, 6 September 1991, pp. 6-11. Sujet Plantes cultivées Mot clé Production végétale Matériel de reproduction/semences Certification Entité non-gouvernementale Aire géographique Alpes, Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Pays de l'Union Européenne, Méditerranée, Europe du Sud Résumé The Decree establishes the Certification Service for propagation material. It is composed by conservation centres, propagation centres and plant production centres. The management of the Service is entrusted to the Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry and to the technical scientific committee established by Ministerial Decree of 6 March 1989. The certification of propagating material may be performed only in favour of authorized centres according to the law. Article 7 contains a classification of the propagating material and article 9 establishes all the requirements that the propagation centres must satisfy in order to obtain the recognition by the Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry. Texte intégral Italien