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Effective date
This version of the International Rules for
Seed Testing is effective from 1st January, 2003. Additional or
replacement pages will be issued as amendments are made and will have
their own 'effective from' dates. Changes to text between different
effective dates will be marked by vertical lines on the outer sides of
text.
Details of changes
The 2003 edition of the
International Rules for Seed Testing is the first consolidated version
since the 1999 edition of the Rules and includes changes voted through
in 2001 (Angers, France) and 2002 (Santa Cruz, Bolivia). The changes
made in 2001 have already been published (Rules Amendments 2001, Seed
Science and Technology, (2001), 29, Supplement 2) so only the
changes made at the Bolivian voting meeting in 2002 are marked by
vertical lines on the outer sides of text. Detailed methods for seed
health testing are published separately in the International Rules for
Seed Testing, Annexe to Chapter 7, Seed Health Testing Methods.
The text was previously separated into two halves, coloured pages of
Rules and white pages of Annexes and Appendices; these have now been
put together into chapters and appendices. Chapter 17 has been
renumbered as Chapter 15: Seed vigour testing, as agreed at the Angers
meeting, Chapter 16 is now Tolerances and Chapter 17 Certificates.
The Rules, Annexes and Appendices together form the International Rules for Seed Testing.
The Rules Committee would like to thank the ISTA secretariat for all
the hard work, help and patience in producing the 2003 edition of the
Rules.
Dr Steve Jones and Jim Sheppard
ISTA Rules Committee Chair and Vice-Chair
November 2002
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