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

Year 2018, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 1 - 12, 30.01.2018

Suleyman Karahan

Abstract

The Economic Cooperation Organization (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 (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

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