Commission Directive 2008/62/EC providing for certain derogations for acceptance of agricultural landraces and varieties which are naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion and for marketing of seed and seed potatoes of those landraces and varieties.

These provisions lay down certain derogations in relation to the conservation in situ and the sustainable use of plant genetic resources through growing and marketing: (a) for acceptance for inclusion in the national catalogues of varieties of agricultural plant species, as provided for in Directive 2002/53/EC, of landraces and varieties which are naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion; (b) for the marketing of seed and seed potatoes of such landraces and varieties.

2008-06-20