Catalogue description Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Plant Varieties and Seeds Division, Cambridge (PSP Prefix Series)

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Reference: MAF 755
Title: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Plant Varieties and Seeds Division, Cambridge (PSP Prefix Series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to amendments to seed regulations, seed registration licensing and enforcement regulations; review of fees for Plant Breeders’ Rights and National Lists; review of seed certification testing and enforcement; consultation regarding arrangements for early multiplication of seeds and proposed amendments to seed legislation and implementation of EC Regulations; discussion on Commission proposals concerning seed equivalence with third countries.
Date: 1998-2009
Related material:

For records relating to Policy and Procedure, Classification of Plant Varieties (PVC Series) see MAF 398

For the records relating to the Protection of Plant Varieties (PVA Series) see MAF 405
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PSP
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001
Physical description: 32 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2021 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Following the passage of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 a new Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division was established and was responsible for all aspects of work relating to plant breeder’s rights, species lists and catalogues, the index, seed quality and liaison with the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, the Official Seed Testing Station and the National Seed Development Organisation Ltd.

The act provided for the granting of proprietary rights to plant breeders or individuals discovering new plants, and conferred on the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the power to regulate the trade in seeds, including the naming of varieties by way of official indexes of approved varieties and plant names.

PSP file series was opened in 1975 for the use of the Plant Variety Rights Office and remained in their use until 2009, when it became part of the new Food and Environment Research Agency. However the policy area of PVS was transferred back to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2011.

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