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NEWSLETTER OECD Seed Schemes NEWSLETTER OECD Seed Schemes July 2010 ISSUE 3 Meeting of the Ministers noted that recent Committee for developments have brought a number of issues and questions Agriculture at confronting the global food and Ministerial Level agriculture system into clear focus. In February 2010, Ministers of Agriculture from the OECD’s 30 Strong growth in demand for feed, member countries and those from food and non-food uses of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Estonia, agricultural raw materials, Indonesia Israel, Slovenia, the alongside persistent global food Contents Russian Federation, South Africa security issues; climate change, and Romania and representatives exacerbated by increasing • Meeting of the Committee from the EU, the FAO and the competition for land, water and for Agriculture at Ministerial WTO met in Paris around the other resources; price volatility; Level theme “Food and Agricultural opportunities for “green growth”. Policies for a Sustainable • 2010 Annual Meeting of the Future; Responding to Global With potential economic and OECD Seed Schemes Challenges and Opportunities”. environmental benefits; growing This meeting brought together interest in the manner in which • OECD welcomes Chile, Ministers and senior policy- food is produced; food related Estonia, Israel and Slovenia makers from countries that health concerns; a renewed together account for a large emphasis on innovation, efficient • Training on Industry proportion of the world’s resource use and productivity Development in Iraq production and consumption of growth, in both developed and food and agricultural products. developing countries, including • Emerging Global Wheat the production of renewable Rust Threats: The Role of FAO energies such as bioenergy on a viable economic and • ISF Conference on AP and environmentally sustainable basis. LLP: Impact on the International Seed Trade The essential role of trade in ensuring a sustainable and reliable • ESA: Times of change – flow of food and raw materials. Europe’s seed industry faces radical overhaul of EU rules From left: Nikolaus Berlakovich The Ministerial meeting agreed and policies (Austria), Minister and co-chair; Angel that a deeper understanding of the Gurría, OECD Secretary-General; David nature, extent, and implications of • 39th Session of the Specialised Carter (New Zealand), Minister and co- these issues for the sector and for Section on Standardization of chair; Ken Ash, Director, OECD Trade public policy choices is required Seed Potatoes of the UNECE and Agriculture Directorate and invited the OECD to explore these issues further over the medium and longer term, in cooperation with national www.oecd.org/tad/seed governments and other relevant 2010 Annual Meeting of Version of the Rules will apply international organisations. the OECD Seed Schemes from January 2011. Finally, it was concluded that the Guidelines for Control Plot Tests The Annual Meeting of the OECD task for Ministers and members of and Field Inspection of Seed Seed Schemes took place on 25 their governments, is to ensure Crops and 26 March 2010 in that the regulations, the The Guidelines for control plot Christchurch, New Zealand. The institutions and the policies are in test and field inspection are primary purpose was to discuss place to enable farmers and the intended to address the methods issues relating to the Varietal entire food system to supply safe used to determine varietal identity Certification of Seed Moving in nutritious food to where it is and varietal purity and consist of International Trade. The meeting needed, respond to various procedures which are advisory to was highlighted by the following societal and consumer demands, National Designated Authorities new documents and a Workshop and act as custodians of our (NDA). The last issue of the on Seed Certification in Asia. natural resources. In parallel, guidelines was published in 2001 careful monitoring and analysis of and has been identified by Compact Version of the Seed progress would be essential. With delegates as a very useful tool. Schemes Rules this in mind, Ministers agreed to The Technical Working Group The aim of the “Compact come together again at OECD, not meeting in 2007 decided that the Version” of the Seed Schemes later than mid-decade, to take guidelines needed to be revised, Rules is to streamline the existing stock of progress. updated and complemented, in rules in a more user friendly order to keep abreast of new layout. The revision has been The Seed Schemes, through its developments. carried out in order to reduce programme of work, already deal with a number of key issues duplication, without making any identified by the Ministerial substantive changes to the rules. Meeting. The countries participating in the Schemes have set up harmonized procedures for production, processing and trade of seed. More specifically, the adoption of OECD seed certification standards has encouraged the growth in the seed trade by reducing the technical barriers to trade and by increasing access by farmers to high-quality seed in all regions of the world. After several years of discussion and revisions, the Guidelines were adopted at the 2010 Annual This has been done by taking the Meeting. The brochure will be common texts from each of the published in September 2010. seed schemes (excluding Vegetables) and putting them Guidelines for Multiplication together in a single part of the Abroad Rules, applicable to all Schemes. The purpose of the Guidelines for Therefore, all rules and conditions multiplication abroad is to identify present in the 2010 Rules shall be responsibilities of each party in the identifiable in the new compacted seed multiplication process, version, either in the section on starting with the NDA of the Left to right: Nikolaus Berlakovich, information applicable to all Austria’s Agriculture Minister, Angel country of registration, the NDA Gurría, OECD Secretary-General and schemes or on specific pages of of the country of multiplication, David Carter, Agriculture Minister, New the schemes. The new Compact the company sending the seed, and Zealand. Paris 25.02.2010. www.oecd.org/tad/seed the company conducting OECD member countries, multiplication. candidate countries and enhanced engagement countries, all of these The work on multiplication abroad countries are already members of started in 2007 in the form of an the Schemes, with exception of Ad-Hoc Working Group (AHWG) Korea, China and Indonesia. consisted of experts dealing Therefore, the Workshop on Seed regularly with multiplication Certification in Asia was held in issues. The primary aim of the order to get these countries AHWG was to set up rules on involved in the Schemes. multiplication abroad, but the idea of having guidelines was seen as being very important. The OECD welcomes Chile, Guidelines will be published in Estonia, Israel and September 2010. Slovenia During the annual Council meeting at Ministerial Level, held on 27 May 2010, OECD countries welcomed four new members: Chile, which joined the Left to right: Andrus Ansip, Prime Organisation on 7 May 2010, Minister of Estonia; Felipe Larrain, Slovenia, which joined the Minister of Finance of Chile; Benjamin Organisation on 21 July 2010, Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel; Estonia and Israel, which OECD Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy; Borut Pahor, Prime Minister of Slovenia countries agreed on 10 May 2010 and Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of to invite as members. The the OECD. remaining candidate country, Russian Federation, is still in the process of accession. These accessions are part of a Training on industry Workshop on Seed Certification broader process of global outreach development in Iraq in Asia through which OECD is As part of the Annual Meeting, a strengthening its collaboration The Dutch General Inspection Workshop on Seed Certification in with emerging and developing Service for agricultural seeds and Asia was held on 26 March 2010. economies, and strategically seed potatoes, NAK, organized a Presentations were made by engage with them through 10-day “train the trainer” course delegates from Japan, India regional activities on Middle East for the seed industry development (current members of the Seed and North Africa, Latin America, in Iraq. The training was Schemes), Indonesia, Korea Southeast Asia and Africa. This organised on behalf of the FAO, (potential applicant countries) and process also includes the and was held at NAK in the president of the Asia Pacific Enhanced Engagement process Emmeloord, the Netherlands. Seed Association. The purpose of with Brazil, China, India, the Workshop was to get a better Indonesia and South Africa. The training was attended by nine understanding of the different Iraqi employees from the seed systems for seed certification and Being a Part II Programme of the testing staff, field inspection staff trade in Asia and evaluate the use OECD, membership of the Seed and growers, together they and value of the OECD Seed Schemes is not only open to covered the whole seed supply Schemes in the Region. It could OECD member countries, but also chain. The goal was to up-date the also encourage greater to non OECD countries. knowledge of the trainees on seed participation in the Schemes from Currently, 58 participants from sampling, purity, germination, Asian countries. around the world participate in the moisture determination, Seed Schemes. Remarkably, it can Tetrazolium, seed health and be observed that from the 32 www.oecd.org/tad/seed quality management and to enable Emerging Global Wheat are now recognized in the Ug99 them to train their own staff in Rust Threats: The Role lineage within Africa. These Iraq. Also investigated, was variants generally exhibit whether the laboratories comply of FAO increased virulence compared to with the ISTA rules for seed Ug99. The Ug99 lineage now By Thomas Osborn, Agricultural Officer, testing and the ISTA accreditation Plant Production and Protection Division threatens the Near East, Eastern standard, and advice was given on Africa and Central and South Asia. how to improve their own Many of the OECD Seed Scheme These regions account for some 37 situation.
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