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ECE/TRADE/WP.7/GE.6/2006/13/Add.1
11 August 2006
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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

COMMITTEE ON TRADE

Working Party on Agricultural Quality Standards

Specialized Section on Standardization of Seed Potatoes

Thirty-sixth session,

Geneva, 20-22 March 2006

REPORT OF THE THIRTY SIXTH-SESSION

Addendum 1

National Catalogue of Potato Varieties and

National Seed Potato Certification Authorities

Note by the secretariat

This document presents information on the national catalogue of potato varieties and national seed potato certification authorities that has been collected by the secretariat.

GE.06-24721National catalogue of potato varieties

Country / Corrections to NCS / Designated Authority / National Catalogue /
Belgium / Yes / Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Administratie Beheer en Kwaliteit Landbouwproductie
Dienst Normering en Controle Plantaardige Productie
Simon Bolivarlaan 30 - 12° verd -
B - 1000 BRUSSEL
Ministère de la Région wallonne
Direction générale de l'Agriculture
Division de la Recherche, du Développement et de la Qualité
Direction de la Qualité des produits
Chaussée de Louvain 14 - bâtiment "Place" -
B - 5000 NAMUR
E-mail: / No website but available from the NDA in electronic format.
Finland / No / Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MMM) has authorized Plant
Production Inspection Centre (KTTK) Seed Testing Department to do the official
certification and sampling of seeds and seed potatotes
E-mail: / The national variety list available only in paper format not on
the website.
Italy / No / (i) ENSE (Ente Nazionale Sementi Elette). In the Bolzano Province: "Assessorato dell'Agricoltura – Ufficio frutti viticoltura Servizio Fitosanitario"
(ii) Ministerio delle Politiche Agricole – Dipartimento della Qualità dei prodotti agroalimentari e dei servizi – Direzione Generale per la qualità dei prodotti agroalimentari e la tutela del Cosumattore – Uffizio QTC – Servizio Sementi.
(iii) ENSE
(iv) see (i)
(v) see (i) / http://www.politicheagricole.it
Mexico / Yes / National Seed Inspection and Certification Service
(SNICS) Av. Presidente Juárez núm. 13 Col. El Cortijo, C.P. 54000
Tlalnepantla, México / not received
Slovakia / Yes / Central Controlling and Testing Institute in Agriculture)
Matúškova 21
833 16 Bratislava, Slovakia
E-mail: / http://www.zbierka.sk/periodika.asp?pr=11&id=872#
http://www.uksup.sk/index.php?n=104
These two websites contain information on National Catalogue of Registered Varieties (first link). The second contains information on the Variety Testing Department of Central Control and Testing Institute in Agriculture.
Switzerland / Yes / Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture
Swiss Seed and Plant Service
Mattenhofstr. 5
CH-3003 Bern
Phone: +41 31 322 2550
Fax: +41 31 322 2634
E-mail: / http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c916_151_6.html

National Seed Potato Certification Authorities

Country / Organization /
Argentina / Ex Instituto Nacional de Semillas
Av. Paseo Colón 922 piso 3, oficina 302
Ciudad de Buenos Aires C 1063 ACW /
Bulgaria / Executive Agency for Variety Testing, Field Inspection and
Seed Control
125, Tzarigradslo Shosse Blvd., 1113 Sofia
Tel/Fax: +359 2 706517, 713635
E-mail: /
Canada / National Manager, Potato Section, Plant Health and Production
Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency 59 Camelot Drive
Nepean, Ontario KIA OY9
Tel: +1 613 225 2342 Ext. 4347
Fax: +1 613 228 6628
E-mail: /
Colombia / Registro y Certificación de Semillas I.C.A.
Calle 34 No. 8-43 oficina 410
Bogotá D.C. /
Czech Republic / Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture
CISTA
ZA Opravnou 4 150 06 Praha 5 /
Chile / Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (S.A.G)
Departamento de Semillas
Avenida Bulnes 140
Santiago
Tel: +56 2 345 11 00
Fax: +56 2 3451110
E-mail:
Web: http://www.sag.gob.cl /
Denmark / Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
The Danish Plant Directorate
Department of Plants and Plant Health,
Att.: Henrik I. Pedersen
Havkaervej 83, Postboks 30, DK-8381 Tilst /
Finland / Plant Production Inspection Centre (KTTK)
Seed Testing Department
PB 111, FIN- 32201 Loimaa /
France / Contrôleur national GNIS/SOC 44, rue du Louvre
75001 Paris
Tel: +33 1 42 33 85 01
Fax: +33 1 40 28 40 16
E-mail: /
Germany / Federal Office of Plant Varieties
Osterfelddamm 80, Hannover
Post/ZIP code 30604
Tel: +49 511 956 65
Fax: +49 511 563 362
E-mail:
Web: www.bundessortenamt.de /
Greece / Ministry of Agriculture-Division of Inputs of Crop Production.
2 Acharnon St. 10176 Athens
Tel: +30 12 12 41 02
Fax: +30 12 12 41 37
E-mail: /
Ireland / Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1890 200 510
Web: http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/ /
Italy / Ente Nazionale delle Sementi Elette (Excluded Bozen
District) Via F. Wittgens 4 20123 Milano
Tel: +38 02 806 91626
Fax: +38 02 806 91649
E-mail:
For Bozen district, District Phytosanitary Service /
Latvia / State Plant Protection Service
Reblic sg.2, Riga, LV-1981
Tel: +371 702 70 98; 7027406
Fax: +371 702 73 02 /
Luxembourg / Administration des services techniques de l’agriculture
(ASTA) 1) Service de la production vegetale
2) Service de la protection de Vegetaux B.p. 1904
L-1019 Luxembourg /
Mexico / National Inspection and Certification Seeds Service
(SNICS) Lope de Vega No. 125, 2do piso
Col. Chapultepec, Morales, C.P. 11570
Mexico D.F. /
Netherlands / Dutch General Inspection Service for Agricultural Seed
And Seed Potatoes (NAK) P.O. Box 1115,
8300 BC Emmeloord, Netherlands /
Norway / Norwegian Agriculture Inspection Service
Web: http://odin.dep.no/lmd/english/bn.html /
Portugal / Direcção-geral de Protecção das Culturas (DGPC)
Tapada da Ajuda ed.1
1349-018 Lisboa /
Slovakia / Central Control and Testing Institute of Agriculture
(CCTIA) Matuškova 21 833 16 Bratislava /
Sweden / Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute
Onssovagen
S-268 81 Svalov /
Switzerland / Service Certification-Semences et plants
Station fédérale de recherches en production végétale de
Changins
CP 254, CH-1260 Nyon 1
Web: http://www.blw.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en /
Turkey / Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Seed Registration and Certification Centre
P.O. Box 107
06172 Yenimahalle/Ankara /
United Kingdom:
(England and Wales) / Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Foss House,
King’s Pool
1-2 Peasholme Green, York YO1 7PX /
(Scotland) / Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA)
East Craigs, 82 Craigs Road
Edinburgh
EH12 8NJ /
(Northern Ireland) / Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
(DARD) Dundonal House,
Belfast BT4 3SU /