Guidelines for adjusted procedures for marketing of Organic Varieties and for Organic Heterogeneous Material

This report will present recommendations criteria procedures and decisional guidelines to make certified production and marketing of organic plant reproductive material with special emphasis on OHM accessible and fair to ultimately support sustainable and resilient organic crop production It will consist in a report containing an overview of existing procedures for organic VCU and DUS testing for variety registration as well as guidelines and recommendations on i improving VCU and DUS protocols for organic varieties ii characterisation and testing of Organic Heterogeneous Material OHM as part of the revised organic regulation Reg 2018848EU that will come into place in 2021