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ield for exporters, and to develop cross-compliance with national and EU-

wide legislation related to biodiversity conservation and the conservation of

landraces (FSO, 2010).

Table 3.4 Summary of key decisions and events in the evolution of the European organic seed regulation

Timeline Regulatory Position Change
Outcome

1991 Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 EU Organic standard implemented

1999 Council Regulation (EC) No 1804/1999
EU standard amended with derogation to
enforce organic seed usage by December
2003

2002 EU commission to perform organic Reform of 1999 Council Regulation (EC) No

seed evaluation
1804/1999

2003 Commission regulation (EC) No Retracted December 2003 derogation closure
1452/2003
date. Requirement for all EU countries to
establish national organic seed databases

and annual derogation granting report for full
availability disclosure.

2003 Formation of the European Consortium Organization formed with the goal to
for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO PB)
harmonize EU members processes on organic

seed databases and annual reports

2004 EC Organic Seed Regime 2004
Started implementing the derogation regimes
for organic seed

2007 EU project EEC 2092/91 Organic Project included a report with revisions to
Revision
the original organic standard including the

section on organic seed

2008 ECO PB Position Document on Cross Set goal to identify 5 crops that in the coming
Country Regional agreements on
3-5 years to work towards reductions in

derogations
derogations or in category 1 list

2008 Motion on banning protoplast fusion Proposed ban on varieties derived from and
at the IFOAM General Assembly
use of protoplast fusion in organics
accepted

2009 ECO-PB Position Document on Requested that national databases indicate

protoplast fusion
varieties derived from protoplast fusion

2009 Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
Revised EU Organic Standard

2009 Council Regulation (EC) No 889/2008
Revised of organic seed regulation

2010 IFOAM Standards for Organic Breeding IFOAM included standards for organic
under consultation
breeding and deined the breeding
techniques compatible with organic values

2012 IFOAM Final Document IFOAM deinition of organic plant breeding

inalised

2012 ECO PB Meeting
ECO PB met on EU organic seed expansion and
developed strategic framework

Sources: Doring et al., 2012, EC, 2007; 2009, Gibbons, 2008, IFOAM, 2012, Lammerts van Bueren et al.,
2007; 2008, Rey et al., 2009, Wilbois, 2006.

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