Plant fruit material certification system in Spain

Barcelona, 4 February 2008

Carles Folch i Castellcfolchcastell@gencat.net

DARP – Servei de Producció Agrícola

Control and certification

• History process– Different Regulations– Publication Directiva CE– Unification Regulation

• Administrative structure

Regulation• Production and Comercialization

– Act 30/2006 of Seeds and Nursery Plants– General and specific Regulation

• Plant Health– Act 43/2002 of Plant Health– R.D. 58/2005 about organisms harmful of plants

• Plant variety rights– Act 3/2000 of plant variety rights– Regulation 2100/1994 of plant variety rights

RD 929/1995• Technical regulation of control and certification

of fruit tree of nursery plants

RD 929/1995• Regulates the production of fruit vegetal

material• Cítrics trees: Rutaceas• Fruits trees: Prunus, Pyrus, Malus, Cydonia• Other fruit trees: Juglans, Corylus, Pistacia, Ribes,

Rubus• Olive tree: Olea• Strawberry: Fragaria• Banana: Musa• Aguacate: género Persea

RD 929/1995• Regulation of the material categories

– Initial– Base– Certified– CAC - conformitas agraria comunitatis

RD 929/1995• Category of the suppliers

– Obtentor: initial and base material– Seleccionador: inicial, base, certified, CAC material– Multiplicador: Fruit tree certified, CAC material

RD 929/1995• Generals requirements

– Production– Health plants– Suppliers– Marketing

RD 929/1995 – Specific requirements

• Certification– Virus free– Initial and Base plants– Labeled official

Certification of fruits trees

• Material initial• Collections of varieties• Distribution to the nursery• Import of foreign material

Schema of the control of the production

• Aplication of production• Control of plantation• Control of grafted• Authorization labels• Control labeled

Production: Control and certification

• Information management• Elaboration statistical• Production 2005:

Citrics tree 1,1 M plantsFruit tree 2,9 M plantsOlive tree 2,5 M plantsOthers Fruit tree 0,1 M plants

Control of production CAC

• Declaration of production• Control of plants• Publication data of production

Diffusion of the information

• Traceability of fruit tree for internet• Production and Certification Informs• List of plant variety rights (Europe/Spain)

http://www.ruralcat.net/ruralcatApp/plansons.ruralcat?content=/plansons/jsp/plansons.jsp

CMV – Control Vegetal Material• http://www.gencat.net/darp/c/camp/cmv/ccmv01.htm