Illustrious lord:

The need to adapt the specific legislation on the control and certification of seed of self-range cereal seed to the Directive of the Council of the European Economic Community 66/402 on the marketing of cereal seeds, as well as the desirability of introducing new species, requires an amendment to the current legislation.

Therefore, this Ministry, on a proposal from the Directorate General of Agrarian Production, has had the right to have:

First.

In order to develop the Directive of the Council of the European Economic Community 66/402, the Technical Regulation of Control and Certification of Grain Seeds is approved, which is listed as a single annex to this Order.

Second.

The Technical Control and Certification Regulations for Self-Range Cereal Seed Seeds, approved by Order of 31 August 1979, are hereby repealed.

Third.

This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Gazette of the State.

What I communicate to V. I. for its knowledge and effects.

God save V. I. many years.

Madrid, 1 July 1986.

ROMERO HERRERA

Ilmo. Mr. Director General of Agrarian Production.

UNIQUE ATTACHED

Technical Control and Certification of Grain Seed Regulations

I. Species subject to the Technical Regulation

The seeds of the following cereals are included in the scope of this Technical Regulation, whether their end is grain production or as a feed destination:

" Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori et Paol ": Soft Wheat.

"Triticum durum Desf": Hard Wheat.

"Triticum spelta L.": Scanner.

"Triticum turgidum L.": Trigo round.

"Hordeum vulgare L.": Cebada.

"Avena sativa L.": Avena.

"Avena strigosa Schreb": Avena estrigosa.

"Avena byzantina C. Koch": Avena red.

"Oryza sativa L.": Rice.

"Phalaris canariensis L.": Alpiste.

"Secale cereale L.": Centeno.

"X Triticosecale Wittm": Triticale.

Only "seed" of the cereals mentioned above may be called "seed" of crops controlled by the official control services and which has been obtained in accordance with the provisions contained in this Regulation, as well as in the Law 11/1971, of 30 March, of Semillas and Plants of Vivero; Decree 3767/1972 of 23 December, approving the General Regulation on the Production of Seeds and Plants of Vivero and subsequent modifications, as well as in the Order of 23 May 1986 for the approval of the General Regulation of Control and Certification of Seeds and Plants of Vivero.

You may also receive the "seed" name that is imported that meets the appropriate legal requirements.

II. Categories of seeds

(a) For the species common wheat, durum wheat, scanda, round wheat, barley, oats, oatmeal, red oats, rice and triticale the following categories of seeds are allowed:

Parental material.

Prebase seeds.

Base seed.

First-play certified seed (R-1).

Second-Replay Certified Seed (R-2).

For rye and allspice species the following seed categories are supported:

Parental material.

Prebase seeds.

Base seed.

Seed certified.

b) Parental material constitutes generation G-0: Successive generations of prebase seeds will be called G-1, G-2, and G-3.

III. Commercial varieties eligible for certification

In the species for which the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has established a list of commercial varieties, only seeds of cultivars included in the list may be produced for certification. itself, with the exception of those intended exclusively for export.

IV. Seed production

(a) Requirements for production processes: Except as provided for in paragraph IV, (b), for parental material and generations G-1 and G-2 of prebase seed, the fields of production of cereal seed must comply with the requirements laid down in Article 4 (1) of the basic Regulation. requirements as set out in Annex No 1.

b) Special requirements for obtaining parental material and generations G-1 and G-2 of prebase seed:

1. Method for the conservation of a commercial variety.-The method for the conservation of varieties of breeder will be the one described in the registration of the same in the Register of Commercial Varieties of Plants, following rules for conservative varietal selection generally accepted for the species.

The method to be followed for the conservation of a variety of unknown breeder of all species included in this Regulation, with the exception of the piste, rye and triticale, should be based on the successive spigas or lines and multiplications in lines retaining their affiliation in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph and in paragraphs IV, b), second, third and fourth.

The set of plants that come from a plant's spikes or pannies is understood by line.

The family is understood to be the set of plants that come from a line or line.

2. Parental Material. -Parental material is understood to serve to initiate the process of conservation of the variety. It is to be obtained by collecting in maximum guarantee fields for eavesdropping or panning. For the continuation of the process, the spigas or panning shall be collected in the production fields of G-1, as described in paragraph IV, b), third, retaining their filiation and with a minimum of ten families.

The number of spikes or pants shall be sufficient to ensure that, after having been tested in the laboratory and discarded, all those with a variation in relation to the description of the variety, there is a remaining balance to be used not less than 300 in sowing, irrespective of the reservations referred to in paragraph 5.

The grains obtained from the spigas or the selected plates constitute the parent material or G-0. The number of multiplications from this generation to produce the base seed will be four.

3. Production of G-1. The production of G-1 shall be carried out in isolated plots not less than 30 meters of any seed with seed of the same species, except for plots of multiplication of the successive generation of the same variety. The sowings shall be in rows per spigot or paniculum, with separation between them not less than 20 centimetres.

These plots cannot be established in land that has been sown during the previous campaign with seed of the same species, except for express authorization in the case of rice seed, nor those in which the lack of Homogeneity may make it difficult to determine the type variations of the resulting plants. These conditions will also be observed in the sowing of the remaining prebase seed generations.

Throughout the vegetative process, from the nascence to the ripening, all the furrow in which variations appear in terms of characters that has served to describe the variety will be eliminated.

If the removal is performed in post-flowering time, not only will the groove be started in which anomalies appear, but also the contiguous ones.

Analogously the plants in which coal attacks appear ("Ustillake sp.") will be removed. , tizon ("Tilletia sp.") , helmintosporosis ("Helminthoporium sp.") , taking the plants out of the plot. If multiple attacked plants appear in the same groove, the entire groove will be discarded.

The seed mixture of the non-eliminated G-1 lines will be the one used for the production of G-2.

4. Production of G-2. -plots sown with G-1, intended for the production of G-2, must be isolated from any other field of the same species for a distance not less than 30 metres, or surrounded by a strip of width not less than 10 metres, seeded with G-2 seed of the same variety.

Sings will be carried out in bands of 3 meters wide, at most, and with corridors that allow easy access.

During the whole vegetative process and, in particular, in the spigazon, purges will be made to remove all plants (not the spikes or pannies) of other species, other varieties, natural hybrids, mutations and, in general, any plant of a type that is doubtful or attacked by coal, thyzon or helmintoporiosis.

5. º Inspections to be carried out. -Official inspections will be carried out to the fields of seed production as often as they are deemed necessary and, at least, once in the spigot phase.

The technical staff of the producer as many times as accurate to keep the plots properly purged at all times.

c) Specific requirements for the production of pre-base category seed from the generation immediately preceding the base seed, and subsequent categories:

1. º Varieties on a farm. -In the same farm of farmer-contributor only a limited number of varieties of each species, previously authorized, can be grown to obtain seed.

This number depends on the size of the farm and the means available to it.

2. º Inspections to be carried out. -Official inspections will be carried out in the fields of seed production as often as they are deemed necessary and, at least, once in the spigot phase.

The staff of the production entity shall carry out the necessary inspections to keep the parcels properly cleaned.

(d) Seed requirements: The seed of the different categories must meet the requirements set out in Annex 2.

e) Producers ' communications: In the crop declaration, it must be said dibly:

Variety grown.

Source, category, and quantity of seed used. In the event that the seed sown has not been produced by the Entity that makes the declaration, it must indicate the Entity that produced it.

Category of seed to produce.

Number of the or the batches.

Area of the plot.

Contributor name and address.

Finca and its location (you can demand situation sketches).

Municipal term and province.

The crop declarations for autumn planting will have to be held by the official control services before 31 December, and those of spring planting before 30 April, except for rice, which will be the subject of the It will be on 30 June, except for reasons of force majeure if the Services consider it appropriate, will set new deadlines. Any modification of the crop declaration shall be communicated within 15 days of the date of production.

3. º Communications during the production and preparation cycle of the seed. -When the official control services are deemed necessary, the Entities must communicate to them, in good time, the dates from which collection may be initiated.

It will be communicated with due notice:

Estimate of the seed collected in each of the production plots.

Situation in warehouses and seed to be collected in each of them.

Getting started from seed selection and preparation operations.

4. Marketing Communications.-Sales by varieties and seed remnants from the marketing year shall be communicated to the National Institute of Seed and Plant of Vivero, hereinafter referred to as the Institute, before 1 January. of June of each year, except for rice, which shall be communicated before 1 August.

V. Seed batch requirements

1. Seed Lots.-The maximum seed lots sizes will be those indicated in the annex number 3.

2. Envases.-The containers in which the seed is to be marketed may have any capacity between 25 and 75 kilograms, with no limitation as to the material of which they are manufactured, provided they meet sufficient safety conditions and are suitable for the conservation of the seed. The containers and other containers that are internationally accepted for the transport of seeds are exempted from the weight limit.

VI. Pre-control and post-control testing

Every producer must seed in the field of pre-control a plot with the samples of each batch that has certified seed of base and those of prebase seeds not intended for its own use. It shall also carry out post-control tests, sowing at least the samples corresponding to 10 per 100 of the certified seed lots, chosen at random. In special cases where the Institute considers it appropriate, the ratio may be increased to 20 per 100.

The size of the plots corresponding to each sample must not be less than 8 square meters, for the certified semitres, and 12 square meters, for the prebase and base.

In the pre-control and post-control plots, plants of other varieties shall be indicated, but not started; plants with atypical variations of the variety and mutants, their number shall be recorded in books or tokens.

VIII. Seed producers

a) Producer categories. The categories are supported:

Producer-breeders.

Producers-selectmen.

Producer-multipliers.

(b) Capacity of facilities: The capacity of the facilities to be producer-selector or producer-multiplier of one or all of the species identified in this Regulation must be such that, at least, its capacity to selection is 3 metric tonnes/hour, except for a single production of piste or rice, in which case it shall be 1 tonne metric/hour. These minima in terms of capacity will be required for each of the selection centres.

c) Facilities classes. Installations must understand at least:

Storage.

Receiving.

Cleaning and mechanical selection.

Treatment.

Packaging.

Seed analysis and testing laboratory.

The Institute will decide whether the characteristics of the facilities listed above are appropriate in each case, with all of them having the necessary capacity related to the minimum selection of the previous.

c) Fields in direct cultivation: Selectmen and producers/breeders producing basic seed must have direct crop fields for the production of generations G-1 and G-2, as well as of the seed of prebase of the generation immediately prior to base, in cases in which the official control services do not authorize their production on farms of farmer-collaborators. All producers must have adequate surface area for the production plans of fields in direct cultivation for the establishment of the required fields of pre-control and post-control.

VIII. Marketing

(a) Tags: On official and producer labels or equivalent forms, where appropriate, the data required by the General Certification Regulation should be included as a minimum.

(b) Subdivision in small packages: Producers may not proceed to the fractionation of the original packages in smaller packages if they are not sealed by the official control services.

c) Seed of previous campaigns: To market seed of previous campaigns it is a prerequisite to carry out new analysis at a later date to June 15, except for rice, which will be on December 15, as well as the official control services shall be resealed with the corresponding sampling.

IX. Imported seeds

Seeds imported from third countries must correspond to species and categories for which the equivalence of production processes and seed requirements has been recognised at Community level. European Economic.

ANNEX NUMBER 1

Production process requirements

(maximum)

	class to produce	Size of plots (minimum) - Hectares	Isolations (minimum) - Metres	Sites of others varieties (maximum)	Plants of other cultivated species infected infected		Plants with tilletia (maximum)
		10	1/ 10,000	-	10	- Centro_table_body "> 20/Ha.	50/Ha.	5/Ha.
Seed	3	5	1/5,000	20/Ha.	50/Ha.	5/Ha.
	2	2/1,000		10	2/1,000	10 Centro_table_body " >2/ 10,000	500/Ha.	50/Ha.
R-2 certified seed	10	2	3/1,000	4/ 10,000	1,000 /Ha.	50/

(1) From the generation immediately preceding the base seed.

Oats seed production plots will be rejected when the number of oat or ballueca plants ("Avena fatua L, A. Sterilis L." and " A. Ludoviciana Dur ".) is greater than five per area.

Remarks:

First.

Minimum plots size: There will be no limitation in the seed production plots of newly introduced or limited-sale varieties, provided that for each one no more than two different plots are planted in a same area. In the production of rice seed the minimum areas can be reduced to: base seed, 500 square meters; certified seed, 1 hectare.

Second.

Previous crops: They cannot be used for the production of cereal seed, with the exception of rice, no plot which in the previous marketing year would have been sown with cereals of any kind, unless it was of the same variety and of the same or earlier category.

Plots of plots for prebase seed production of the generation immediately preceding the base shall be made in bands of 3 meters wide, maximum, and with corridors that allow easy access.

Third.

Isolations: The isolations refer to the planting of another cereal of the same species. No isolation is required if the field is surrounded by another of the same variety, seeded with seed of the same category or of the immediate lower than the one used in the plot intended for seed production.

In the production of seed of allspice and rye, the minimum distance in meters will be 300 for the base seeds and previous generations, and 250 for the certified.

For triticale seed production, the minimum distance in meters shall be 50 for the base seed, and 20 for R-1 and R-2 certified.

Fourth.

Plants of other varieties: In the production of seeds of piste and rye, the maximum number of plants of other varieties will be 1 for 30 square meters for the base seed and previous generations, and 1 for 10 meters squares for certified seed.

The typical variations of the commercial variety will not be taken into account.

For the determination of the proportions of plants of other varieties and those corresponding to the following paragraphs shall be carried out at random, following appropriate methods.

Fifth.

Plants of other cultivated species: Only cultivated species of difficult mechanical separation in the handling of seeds and in particular other cereals are considered.

The acceptance or cancellation of a parcel may be deferred in the case of the maximum fixed, until the mechanical selection and analysis of the samples have been carried out, when the producer so requests and it is ensured that the seed of the parcel concerned has not been mixed with that of other parcels.

Sixth.

Infected plants: Coal-attacked plants are considered to be infected ("Ustillake sp.") in the fields of production of wheat seed, barley and oats, and by helmintosporosis ("Helminthosporium sp.") for barley and rice, as well as for "Piricularia oryzae" in rice.

In the case of rye, the number of sclerotic sclerotia ("Purpurea Claviceps") shall not be greater than one per square metre, in all categories.

Fields may be approved with percentages greater than those shown in the table at the request of the Entity, provided that prior to the sealing of the seed they have been treated with products of recognized efficacy.

ANNEX NUMBER 2

Seed requirements

Species and Category

Certified Seed

Germination (minimum) Percentage	Purity specifies (minimum) Percentage	varietal varietal (minimum)	Percentage	Seeds of other species (maximum)	Semillas of others cereals (maximum)	Seeds of others species not cereals (maximum)	Avena fatua Avena sterilis Avena ludoviciana Lolium temulentum (maximum)	Raphanus raphanistrum Agrostemma gitmam (maximum)	Panicum sp. (maximum)	Grains red rice (maximum)	Seeds attacked by coal (maximum)	Semillas attacked by tizon (maximum)	Humidity
	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
, barley, and oats:
85	99	99		99.9	4	1	0		1	-	-	2	0	14
R-1 certified seed	85	98	10		5	7	7	0	3	-	-	5	14
14 R-2-certified R-2-table_body	85	98	99.5	7	7		0	3	-	-			14
Rice:
(*) and Base Seed	85	98	99.9	4	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-	14
R-1	85	98	99.7	10	-	-	-	-	3	5	-	-
	85	98	98	98	98		99.5	10	-	-	-	-	3	5	-	-	14
Prebase (*) and base seed	85	98	-	4	1	3	0	1	-	-	-	-
98	98	-	10	7	7	0	3	-	-	-	-	14
Alpiste:
	98	-	75	-	75	4	1	3			-	-	-	-	-	14
Seed	75	98	-	10	5	7	0	-	-	-	-	-
Triticale:	Triticale:
Prebase (*) and base seed	85	98	99.7	4	1	3	0	1	-	-	-	-	14
	98	99.0		85	9s	10	7	7	0	3	-	-	-	-	14
	R-2 certified seed	85	98	98.0	10	7	7	0	3	-	-	-	-	14

(*) From generation immediately prior to base seed

Remarks:

The presence of a seed of "Avena fatua L.", "Avena sterilis L.", "Avena ludoviciana Dur." or "Lolium temulentum L." (column 7) in a sample of 500 grams shall not be considered impurity if, taken a second sample of equal weight, is totally exempt from these seeds.

The presence of a second seed grain of other cereals (column 5) in the prebase and base seed categories shall not be considered impurity if, taken a second sample of equal weight, is totally exempt from these seeds.

The total impurity content set in columns 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 must be equal to or less than the maximum seed content set in column 4.

The presence of sclerotia or fragments of these "Purpurea Claviceps" will be less than one in 500 grams for base seed and three in 500 grams for certified seed.

ANNEX NUMBER 3

Weight of the batches and samples

	Seed category	Maximum weight of the batch (kilograms)	Minimum weight of the sample to be taken of a batch (grams)	Sample weight to perform the counts of Annex number 2 (grams)
, barley, oats, triticale and rye	Prebase and base	10,000	1,000	500
	20,000	1,000		500
Rice		10,000	500	500	500	500
	20,000		500	500
10,000		10,000	400	400	10,000		200
	10,000		10,000	200
200