Quality of seeds and propagating material 31.03. 2011

1. Quality of seeds and propagating material 31.03. 2011

2. Quality of seeds and propagating material Legislation implemented as part of EEA (in Icelandic regulation 301/1995) • Council Directive 2002/53/EC of 13 June 2002 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species • Council Directive 2002/55/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed • Council Directive 2002/54/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of beet seed • Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed • Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed • Council Directive 2002/57/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants

3. Quality of seeds and propagating material Variety lists Varieties listed in national list or in EU’s common catalogues can be imported • Icelandic national list • Latest from 2009. Not issued every year. • The Agricultural University issues every year list of recommended varieties of agricultural plants. • Few applications. Minor interest from the seed companies for the small marked in Iceland. The variety must show good performance in cultivation trials in Iceland. • Official Icelandic national list: Recommended varieties not listed in EU’s common catalogues or only there because of Icelandic interest.

4. Quality of seeds and propagating material Import of seed

5. Quality of seeds and propagating material Production and export of seed

6. Quality of seeds and propagating material Legislation not a part of EEA • Council Directive 2002/56/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of seed potatoes • Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22 December 1999 on the marketing of forest reproductive material • Council Directive 92/34/EEC of 28 April 1992 on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production • Council Directive 98/56/EC of 20 July 1998on the marketing of propagating material of ornamental plants • Council Directive 2008/72/EC of 15 July 2008 on the marketing of vegetable propagating and planting material, other than seed (Codified version) • Council Directive 68/193/EEC of 9 April 1968 on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine

7. Quality of seeds and propagating material Seed potatoes • Seed potato certification system • Potato varieties certified

8. Icelandic seed potato system Meristem plants Greenhouse tubers S 0 Meristem plants and prebasic: 1 public grower Pre-basic S1 - S4 Basic E1 - E3 Basic and certified: 3 growers Basic and certified: 3 growers Max. 3-6 field generations (in practice) Certified A Import of certified seed Import of certified seed Seed from seed potato licensee Farm saved seed Seed potato licensees: 25 ware potato growers Ware potatoes

9. Quality of seeds and propagating material Seed potatoes Prerequisite for seed potato license: • Freedom of quarantine organisms, like ring rot and cyst nematodes • Regular renewal with certified seed potatoes (15%)

10. Quality of seeds and propagating material Certified seed potatoes

11. Quality of seeds and propagating material Forest plants – Main tree species in Iceland

12. Quality of seeds and propagating material Forest reproductive material • There is an accumulated knowledge for decades over provenances suitable for growing in Iceland. • The Icelandic propagative material has not been characterised according to directive 1999/105 (‘source-identified’, ‘selected’, ‘qualified’ and ‘tested’). • Theres is no Icelandic national register of basic material approved for propagation. • Import of some genuses of trees is prohibited into Iceland according to phytosanitary legislation.

13. Quality of seeds and propagating material Vegetable plants Import into Iceland is prohibited for the following vegetable plants: cucumber, pepper, salat and tomato according to the phytosanitary legislation

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