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Plants > Variety Registration > Review Summary of Comments and Resulting Proposals over the October,
2000 Proposal
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1. | Mandatory registration for seed of varieties of all
agricultural crop kinds (including potatoes) and PNTs that are imported, advertised or sold
in Canada.
For all crop kinds, complete Listing type information (including variety name, pedigree, varietal description, legal reference sample, etc.) will be required for registration. Listing requirements may be met by the provision of information from Plant Breeders' Rights forms, CSGA form 300's or from foreign certification authorities. |
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In addition: | ||
1.1 | - some crops will require prior merit assessment (Disease and/or Quality) in combination with evidence of collection of performance information. (See Schedule A) | |
1.2 | - other crops will require evidence of collection of performance information only. (See Schedule B) | |
1.3 | - other crops, will require neither a prior merit assessment nor collection of performance information. (See Schedule C) | |
2. | Performance information means a minimum of one year of performance testing has been conducted in Canada by or overseen by a third party (ie. recommending committees, or regional/provincial testing organizations) prior to an application being made for registration of a variety. | |
2.1 | Performance information will not be used by a recommending committee to determine if a variety should be supported for registration. | |
3. | In the case of varieties of crop kinds, for which some form of prior merit assessment (Disease and/or Quality) is required, only pedigreed seed may be imported. | |
4. | All Recommending Committees involved in some form of prior merit assessment of those crops in Schedule A will continue to be recognized under Part III of the Seeds Regulations. | |
4.1 | These committees will need to reassess their function with respect to their future involvement in assessing varieties for the revised merit criteria only or merit assessment in combination with performance testing. | |
4.2 | These committees will need to reassess their structure with respect to membership and equality in voting. | |
4.3 | These committees also need to define the prior merit criteria for disease resistance and/or quality traits that "must" versus "should" be met in order to be recommended for registration. | |
5. | Until such time as rapid testing techniques are available to replace KVD as a segregation tool, Kernel Visual Distinguishability (KVD) requirements should be retained for durum, spring and winter wheat, rye and triticale for the CWB Area and white winter wheat classes in Eastern Canada. | |
6. | There is no basis to use socio-economic factors, including market acceptance, ethical or religious concerns, for restricting registrations of varieties under the Seeds Regulations. |
Crop Kinds Subject to Prior Merit Assessment (Disease and/or Quality) in Combination with Performance Information
i) Disease and Quality Merit Assessment plus Evidence of Collection of Agronomic Performance Information
Oilseed Flax
Milling Oats
Malting Barley
Milling Wheat
Field peas
Sunflower
Tobacco (flue-cured)
ii) Quality Merit Assessment plus Evidence of Collection of Agronomic and Disease Performance Information
Canola/Oilseed rape
Field Bean (Navy)
Mustard
iii) Disease Merit Assessment plus Evidence of Collection of Agronomic Performance Information
Feed or Forage Barley
Fibre Flax
Forage Oats
Rye, Triticale
Feed Wheat
Spelt
iv) Health and Safety Requirements Only
Industrial Hemp (THC content only
Lupins (alkaloid content only
Potatoes (TGA content only)
Other crops as health and safety issues arise
Crop Kinds Subject to Evidence of Collection of Agronomic, Disease and Quality Performance Information as Appropriate
Lentils Buckwheat
Annual Canarygrass
Chickpeas
Fababeans
Safflower
Forage species
Soybeans
Crop Kinds Subject to Listing-type Registration Information Only
Millet
Mung Beans
Coloured Beans
Corn, field, hybrid
Crop kinds exempt from Schedule II where variety names are used on
non-pedigreed seed (e.g. Kentucky Bluegrass)
Varieties bred in Canada for multiplication under OECD for
export
Crop kinds in Schedule II of Seed Regulations not subject to
requirements under Schedules A or B
Consequential Amendments to the Regulations
Part I
i) Amend Section 41(c) to remove, "seeding by the importer".
Part III (These changes are over and above those needed to implement the revised registration system)
Contract Registration ( CR): 68(3)- change (a) to appropriate isolation requirements depending upon the crop kind and trait. Review registrants responsibilities/ liabilities related to CR varieties contaminating non-CR commodity crops and post harvest responsibilities.
Include reference to the Operating document, "Procedures for the Registration of Crop Varieties in Canada".
Include a change in the wording of Section 72(g) to add the words, "or incomplete" and replace the word, "variety" with "application", so that Section 72(g) would read, "the information provided to the Registrar is insufficient or incomplete to enable the application to be evaluated".
Include a regulation that would require the Registrar to refuse
to accept an application from an applicant, for a period of 2 years, who has
had an application refused under Sections 72(f) and/or, (i) involving false or
misleading information. {Would be consistent with conditions under Part IV of
the Seeds Regs.}
Possible wording might be,"The Registrar shall not, before the expiration
of a period of 24 months following the refusal of an application, accept an
application for variety registration from an individual whose application has
been refused for a reason set out in section 72(f) and (i) involving false
statements or falsified documents or misleading information."
Schedule II
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