Report on the National Visits of the LIVESEED project

Summary

The aim of report is to collect information about the implementation of the rules on organic seed use in different European countries and to identify political bottlenecks that might hamper this implementation. For this task, Bionext, FiBL-DE and IFOAM EU visited 10 selected countries during 2017-2018. The selection of the countries was based on three criteria (i) high number of yearly reported derogations, (ii) limited national availability of organic seed, and (iii) limited data available on the national organic seed market and actors involved. The selected countries, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Spain, met at least two out of the three criteria.