Article 2Scope

This Decision shall cover plant groupings which fulfil all of the following requirements:

  1. (a)

    they result from a given combination of genotypes;

  2. (b)

    they are considered as units with regard to their suitability for being reproduced unchanged once established in a given region of production with specific agro- climatic conditions;

  3. (c)

    they are generated by one of the following techniques:

    1. (i)

      crossing five or more varieties in all combinations followed by bulking of the progeny and exposing the stock to natural selection in successive generations;

    2. (ii)

      growing together at least five varieties of a predominantly cross-fertilising species, bulking the progeny, repeatedly re-sowing and exposing the stock to natural selection until plants of the original varieties are no longer present;

    3. (iii)

      inter-crossing varieties using crossing protocols different from those in (i) or (ii) to produce a similarly diverse population that does not contain varieties.

Hereinafter such plant groupings are referred to as ‘populations’.