Belgium

Commissions websites

• GMO in the environment
• genetically modified food and feed
• Co-existence

Plant variety protection & registration

• Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO)

Common catalog of varieties

• Common catalogue of varieties of vegetable species - 31st complete edition (November 2012)

• Common catalogue of varieties of vegetable species — fifth supplement to the 30th complete edition (April 2012)

• Common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species — sixth supplement to the 30th complete edition (April 2012)
• Common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species — second supplement to the 29th complete edition
• Common catalogue of varieties of vegetable species — second supplement to the 29th complete edition (March 2011)
• Agricultural plant species
• Common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species — seventh supplement to the 28th complete edition (Nov 2010)
• Vegetable species
  29th Complete Edition of the Common catalogue of varieties of vegetable species (Oct 2010)
• Catalogues européens des espèces de grandes cultures et plants de pomme de terre
• Catalogues européens des espèces potagères

Crop protection

• European Commission Plant Protection
• European Crop Protection Association

GMO legislation

• Pocket guide to GM crops and policies (2012)
• The EU Legislation on GMOs
  An overview
  Damien Plan, Guy Van den Eede
  European Commission, Joint Research Center
  2010

GMO register

• European Commission - Joint Research Center
  • Deliberate release into the environment of GMOs for any other purposes than placing on the market
    (experimental releases)
  • Placing on the market of GMOs as or in products (commercial releases)
• European Commission - Community register of genetically modified food and feed
• Community Reference Laboratory for GM Food and Feed
  • Page dedicated to CDC Triffid flax (FP967)
  • Page dedicated to rice Bt 63
  • Page dedicated to maize Event 32
  • Page dedicated to LLRICE601
  • Page dedicated to BT10

European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL)

• Home
• Designated members

Food safety

• European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
  • Genetically Modified Organisms
  • Plant health
  • Plant protection products and their residues
• USDA/FAS GAIN report describing the background to and role and structure of the European Food Safety Authority (Feb 2011)

Organic farming

• Organic farming website

Patent rights and plant breeder's rights

• Breeding Business - The future of plant breeding in the light of developments in patent rights and plant breeder's rights
  Center for Genetitc Resources, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands (December 2009)

Pesticides legislation

• Source: ENDURE (European Network for the Durable Exploitation of Crop Protection Strategies)
  • European legislation

  • European documents

  • National policy documents

Seed certification

• European Seed Certification Agencies Association
  • News
  • Agencies
  • Statistical data

• Good Seed and Plant Practices (GSPP)
  The purpose of GSPP is to prevent tomato seed and plant lots from being infected by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm)

Information websites

• European Customs Information Portal
• GMO Compass
• GMO Safety / bioSicherheit

OECD

• OECD Schemes for the Varietal Certification of Seed Moving in International Trade
  • Guidelines for Control Plot Tests and Field Inspection of Seed Crops, Sept. 2010
  • Guidelines for Multiplication Abroad, Sept. 2010
  • Countries participating in the OECD Codes and Schemes in 2010
  • 2010-2011 OECD Seed Meetings
  • The OECD Schemes on the African Continent
     
  • Newsletter for the Seed Schemes - Issue 3
  • Newsletter for the Seed Schemes - Issue 2
  • Newsletter for the Seed Schemes - Issue 1