Article 2Scope
This Decision shall cover plant groupings which fulfil all of the following requirements:
- (a)
they result from a given combination of genotypes;
- (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;
- (c)
they are generated by one of the following techniques:
- (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;
- (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;
- (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.
- (i)
Hereinafter such plant groupings are referred to as ‘populations’.