#AGRG2608639AFrance Updates Official Catalogue for Beet and Industrial Chicory Seed Varieties
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This order adds a large set of fodder beet, sugar beet, and industrial chicory varieties to France’s official catalogue, allowing their seeds to be marketed in France for ten years. Several listed varieties are identified for resistance or tolerance traits, including rhizomania, nematodes, brown rhizoctonia, and certain herbicide inhibitors. It also adds one sugar beet variety to the export multiplication list, meaning it can be multiplied in France for export. The practical effect is mainly for seed companies, breeders, farmers, and distributors: newly listed varieties can enter commercial seed channels, while compliance teams should ensure catalog status and variety-specific traits are correctly reflected in sales and technical documentation.
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Key Changes
- Adds multiple fodder beet, sugar beet, and industrial chicory varieties to France’s official catalogue for marketing in France for ten years.
- Identifies certain varieties with disease, nematode, rhizoctonia, or herbicide-tolerance traits.
- Adds the sugar beet variety ST Colmeo to the list of varieties that may be multiplied in France for export.
Obligations
What this law requires
Seed marketers may commercialize in France the fodder beet, sugar beet, and industrial chicory varieties newly entered on Official Catalogue list A only for the ten-year registration period granted by the order.
Sales and technical documentation for listed varieties must reflect the catalogue rubric and stated resistance or tolerance traits, including rhizomania, nematode, brown rhizoctonia, and acetolactate-synthase-inhibitor herbicide tolerance where indicated.
The named maintainers are responsible for maintaining each listed variety in conservative selection as identified in the official catalogue entry.
The sugar beet variety added to the export multiplication list may be multiplied in France for export under that catalogue status, and operators should ensure it is handled as an export-multiplication variety rather than a domestic list A marketing entry unless separately authorized.