A unified market of seeds of agricultural plants is planned to be created in the EAEU, the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) said following the meeting of the Eurasian intergovernmental council.
"At the meeting, the EAEU countries signed an agreement on the use of seeds of agricultural plants within the EAEU. The goal of the agreement is the development of a union seed market in the EAEU, the elimination of restrictions in mutual trade and the regulation of the market for seeds of agricultural plants, with the exception of seeds, the genetic program of varieties which contains genetic engineering material," the statement circulated by EEC.
The press service specified that the agreement provides for the application in the EAEU of common methods for determining the varietal and planting qualities of the seeds of agricultural plants that will allow mutual recognition of documents certifying the quality of seeds and their sale on the territory of one member state with documents issued in another member country. As stated in the EEС, at the present time the agro-industrial complexes of the EAEU members are highly dependent on the import of seeds, the average annual value of which as a whole for the Union for the last five years was about $ 750 million.
Source: agro.ru.
