Sjemenarstvo, Vol. 28 No. 3-4, 2011.
Conference paper
SITUATION IN THE CZECH SEED SECTOR IN THE RELATION TO THE CHANGES AFTER THE ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Ladislav Rosenberg
; Czech Seed Trade Association
Abstract
The Czech Republic has been EU member since 2004. Nowadays it is
possible to evaluate the concrete influence of that joining to the national seed
sector volume and productivity. Several important areas which had an
important impact on seed sector development are defined. Those are: the
development and changes in the structure of the agricultural production,
concentration of the capital and the change of the competition environment,
harmonization of the seed legislation and Plant Breeder’s Right. National
varieties share has permanently decreasing trend due strong competitive
pressure on the market caused by free market of varieties listed in the
Common Catalogue and by registration of the productive foreign varieties of
which sale is supported by long-standing marketing experience of the strong
multinational companies. The breeding of some crops was definitely stopped
or restricted (sugar beet, flax, triticale). The development of the new
legislative for EU seed sector in the direction of centralisation could cause
next problems for domestic national breeding companies.
Keywords
plant breeding; seed production; influence of the EU accession
Hrčak ID:
77868
URI
Publication date:
20.1.2012.
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