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Complete this form to apply for a statement for your vegetable crop.
Example statements: registration statement, NON GMO, Certificate of conformity, inclusion of variety as a third-country synonym or on internal Naktuinbouw list, granting authorisation for a vegetable variety which has not yet been officially admitted, conservation statement or ISTA sampling statement.

To register as a Naktuinbouw customer to use our Variety Testing services, please complete this form.

You can apply for authorisation by just ticking the box on the Plant Breeders' Rights and/or Authorisation application form. If you wish to apply for authorisation at a later stage, you can send this form to us by e-mail. 

Please refer to this link for the full text of the Decision (2004/842/EC). 

These can be found on this page: Authorisation: marketing material not yet listed varieties, paragraph "About the regulation".

You can contact Amanda van Dijk per email: nal@naktuinbouw.nl

The sampling requirements as described in the NAL conditions version 12 will become into force from 1 October 2024. Tests performed after this date that are used for NAL quality certificates must meet these requirements. The period between the adoption of the new requirements (15 March 2024) and 1 October 2024 is needed to adapt the sampling (and possibly test) protocols by NAL-participants, and their review by NAL. Small and commercial seed lots sampled and tested before 1 October 2024 are exempt from this requirement and seed health test results can be used for NAL quality certificates when tested according to in-house sample sizes.

You are always responsible to check requirements of third parties yourself. Third parties may request a test on a larger sample.

Small seed samples come from a (very) low number of plants. The ratio between the one plant infected with a pathogen and the other(s) is high, so the infection rate is high. The relevant number of seeds is extrapolated from ISPM no. 31, appendix 2, table 1 and can be calculated by the formulas in appendix 2.

For bacteria this is coming from requirements for GSPP (Good seed and plant practices, see GSPP : hygiene in seed production and plant raising to prevent infection with pathogens). Compared to bacteria, viruses and fungi have a different risk (a different infection rate and a different distribution) which leads to different number of seeds

Sample size and subsample sizes must be described and validated in your test protocol and/or validation report. See condition 22.8.6. This is reviewed by NAL.

Each test must reflect the whole sample, the sample can not be divided prior to starting the test protocol.