The draft law No. 1460-1 offers to improve: determination of specific notions in seed farming; authorities of executive bodies in this sector of social relations; grounds for acquiring the right to production and use of seeds and planting materials; demands for circulation of seeds and planting material and order of their certification.
The draft law plans to provide access to world markets for domestic seeds, provide opportunity to receive status of equivalence of certification of seeds from the European Union, and improve the procedure of registration of plant types.
The offered mechanism of avoidance of double certification (for seeds and planting material with the certificate of OECP or ICTA) has, pursuant to the document, to provide access of domestic producers of seeds and planting material to quality resources of seed farming during their bringing onto the territory of Ukraine and to lower administrative burden during its registration.
Besides, the draft law offers to simplify economic activity in the field of seed farming via the reduction of the number of requirements to documents submitted for registration of varieties, reduce terms of holding of examination of application and production of documents on rights to varieties, specify the order of examination of varieties and order of appealing against decisions of respective executive bodies.
Besides, the document offers to specify particular legislative provisions on use of “unrecognized” seeds and planting material, order of control in this field and bringing of persons guilty of breaching respective legislation to legal responsibility, etc.