Variety Development and Variety Tes ting, Variety Regis tration (Release) and Protection (PVP) Sys tems in The Eco Countries

Authors : Suleyman KARAHAN

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Publication Date : 2018-01-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The Economic Cooperation Organization insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ECO); is an intergovernmental regional organization es tablished in 1985 by Iran, Pakis tan and Turkey for the purpose of promoting economic, technical and cultural cooperation among the Member S tates. In 1992, the Organization was expanded to include seven new members, namely: Afghanis tan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhs tan, Kyrgyzs tan, Tajikis tan, Turkmenis tan and Uzbekis tan. Seed sys tems and seed trade in ECO region has been already cons trained somewhat by regulations and policies that were es tablished when formal seed production were dominated mainly by the public sector. Variety release procedures were designed to meet the needs of public research ins titutes and seed certification sys tem was mainly focused on public or paras tatal seed enterprises. Procedures for variety tes ting and approval cons tituted a significant barrier to seed trade and inhibited the spread of new varieties beyond national boundaries. This led to delays in release and often rejection of useful varieties that did not meet the criteria and procedures. A variety released in one country faced long battles to gain release in a second country. Commercial seed trade was also hampered by lack of intellectual property protection for plant varieties and by different procedures for import and export of seed. Under the FAO-ECO launched “Seed Sector Development in Countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ECO);”, the Regional Seed Agreement and Regional Seed S trategy were developed. In this presentation, variety development; variety tes ting and regis tration; variety protection sys tem in the ECO Countries have been evaluated.
Keywords : variety development, variety tes ting and regis tration, variety protection, ECO