In order to make the availability of organic seeds more transparent, the implementation of an electronic database is mandatory for all EU Member States pursuant to Regulations (EC) 834/2007 and 889/2008, but it will also be with the new Regulation (EU) 2018/848 which will be applied starting from January 2021.
Conserving and reproducing the seeds of local wild plants and flowers: this is the aim of the working group coordinated by the Laimburg Experimentation Center and composed of researchers from the Center itself, and by colleagues from the Bioland association, Eurac and the Villa Ottone Provincial Museum of Traditions.
LIVESEED, financed by Horizon 2020, is based on the concept that cultivars adapted to organic systems are key for realising the full potential of organic agriculture in Europe.
The leading research institute in organic agriculture, FiBL, inaugurated its new office in Brussels. It builds a bridge between FiBL’s sound scientific knowledge on organic farming and the policy-making processes taking place in Brussels, including the many different representatives and stakeholders present in the European capital.
The Italian Official Gazette of 24 April 2017 published a new Ministerial Decree on "Establishment of a computerized database of seeds and vegetative propagation material obtained through the organic method and provisions for the use of seeds or vegetative propagating material not obtained through the organic production method".
The decree refers to the establishment of a computerized database of seeds and vegetative propagating material obtained through the use of the organic method and provisions on the the system of derogations.
