Authors: ECOWAS-UEMOA-CILSS – FAO
Keywords: regional development; references; seeds; Plant Varieties

The ECOWAS-UEMOA-CILSS Regional Catalogue of Plant Species and Varieties is a major instrument of the harmonized seed regulation. It is expected to be updated annually and edited every two years. The regional catalogue is updated using information from the revised national catalogues of the States in the ECOWAS-UEMOA-CILSS region. Indeed, the harmonized seed regulation provides in its articles 9 for Regulation C/REG.4/05/2008/ECOWAS and 80 for Regulation N°03/2009/CM/UEMOA, that the Regional Catalogue is “the official document which contains the list of all the plant varieties approved in the Member States”. […]

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Catalogue 2008: https://www.fao.org/3/i0062f/i0062f.pdf
Catalogue 2016: http://www.coraf.org/wasp-learningevent/fichiers/catalogue.pdf
Catalogue 2021: https://www.wakatsera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Catalogue-Regional-CEDEAO-UEMOA-CILSS-des-Especes-et-Varietes-Vegetales-2021.pdf