List of federal varieties
The list of varieties , usually called the federal variety list , is the list of all plant varieties approved for trade by the German Federal Office of Varieties (BSA) . Seeds that meet the requirements of the Seed Traffic Act (SaatG) of distinctness, homogeneity and stability and that have a recordable variety designation and, in certain cases, also have cultural value (Section 30 SaatG), are entered in the list of varieties after successful approval. The approval is valid for vines and fruit for 20 years, for all other types of fruit for ten years and can be extended after expiry. Unlike the so-called variety register , however, it does not make any statement about the legal protection status of varieties .
The Federal Plant Variety list arose from the 1934 through the seed Regulation created and the Reich created Empire variety list . Even then, the aim was to protect farms from buying inferior seeds by only bringing them onto the market that have been tested and approved. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship and the creation of the bizone , the list of varieties of varieties permitted in the United Economic Area, published by the Variety Office for Useful Plants , took its place in 1948 . With the Seed Act of 1968, the list of varieties was created in its current form. In the German Democratic Republic , the Reichsortenliste was replaced from 1950 by the list of varieties of cultivated plants permitted in the German Democratic Republic .
Similarly, there are also variety lists in other EU countries that have been brought together in the common variety catalog of the Community Plant Variety Office (CVPO) since 1972 . It contains around 10,000 vegetable and 5,000 agricultural varieties (as of 2012).
References
literature
- Inken Garbe, Steffen Pingen: Plant variety protection and seed traffic law, plant protection and fertilizer law. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, berlin 2012.
- Bernhard Gill, Barbara Brandl: Legitimacy of plant variety protection and plant variety approval from a sociological point of view. In: Axel Metzger (Ed.): Legal protection of plant breeds. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014.
- Jonathan Harwood: Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since. The rise and fall of peasant-friendly plant breeding. Routledge, Abingdon 2012.