C20A-Agriculture, hunting

Order amending Annexes I, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII of the General Regulations on the Register of Commercial Varieties, approved by Royal Decree 170/2011 of 11 February 2011.

The practical experience gained over the years, together with developments in the CPVO quality standard with which the examination offices accredited by it as the Spanish Plant Variety Office must comply — and which the latter also applies to centres accredited to conduct DUS tests for the variety registers falling within the remit of MAPA — make it advisable to update the requirements in order to strengthen the safeguards governing the conduct of DUS tests. This is achieved through this Order. The amendments to update these requirements affect the technical regulations for the registration of varieties set out in Annexes I, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII to the General Regulation on the Register of Commercial Varieties, approved by Royal Decree 170/2011 of 11 February 2011.

In short, this Order updates the aforementioned requirements of the Technical Regulations for the Registration of certain species or groups of species, such as spinach; cereals; maize and sorghum; forage crops, herbage plants, turf grasses and grain legumes; oil and fibre crops; vegetables; grapevines; stone and pome fruit trees; citrus fruit; strawberries; olive trees; and fig trees