Background
Serbian administration effectively conducts accession negotiations and successfully manages overall EU integration and pre-accession assistance geared towards EU membership. To improve capacity of the staff of Serbian Department for Plant Variety Registration within PPD and related institutions entrusted with the task of plant variety testing to apply best practices in the area of plant variety testing and registration pursuant to EU regulations governing this area.
Main beneficiary of the project
- Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection - Plant Protection Directorate/Department for Plant Variety Registration.
- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade (trial station "Radmilovac");
- Institute for Viticulture in Sremski Karlovci - Faculty of Agriculture,
- University of Novi Sad (viticulture trial station within the Institute);
- Fruit Research Institute Cacak;
- Agricultural Advisory Service (PSSS) Sombor (trial station "Sombor")
These institutions will participate in the project due to the fact that they are the only institutions in the Republic of Serbia that have established variety reference collections necessary for DUS testing of varieties of agricultural species. Reference collection is the collection of varieties of a plant species having specific morphological characteristics defined by UPOV and used for the assessment of new varieties regarding their distinctness, uniformity and stability - DUS test - the examination that determines if the plant variety will be registered in the National List of Varieties. Reference collection contains a large number of varieties. When registering a new variety, it has to be checked if the variety which has been reported as new, already exists, or if it has been already registered under different name.
Budget
- The total budget for this Twinning is EUR 800.000
Deadline: 24 November 2016