Agreement on the organization of collecting and maintaining of plant gene banks

Translation from the Polish. AGREEMENT of 20 August 1919. between the Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Science, University Education and Engineering, Minister of Light Industry and the Scien tific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences on the oorganization of collecting and maintaINING of plant gene banks. To facilitate and improve the efficiency of collecting and maintain ing national plant gene banks and to secure starting material for breeding and research it is hereby decided as follows : 1. The Minister of Agriculture shall establish a National Department of Plant Gene Resources in the Institute of Breeding and Acclimation of Plants. 2. The duties of the National Department of Plant Gene Resources shall comprise : coordination of the operation of Leading Collections, to be:..mentioned in sec. 4; running central information services on collected material; development of an unified method of maintaining the collection; training in the methods of maintaining the collection; initiating and organizing exploration in Poland and abroad; representation of Poland in internaTIONAL INSTITUTIONS In the matters relating to collection and maintaining plant gene resources; controlling of substantive activities of the Leading Collections. 3. The Scientific Council of the Institute of Breeding and Acclimation of Plants, which is to create a section for plant gene banks, shall be the consulting authority of the Management of the National Department of Plant Gene Resources, 4. The Ministers of Agriculture, of the Light Industry and the Scienti fic Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences shall cause formation of Leading Collections specializing in defined species(genera) or groups of species of plants in the subordinate to them establishmwents specified in the Annex hereto and shall secure the conditions necessary for their operation. 2 5. The term "Leading Collection" shall denote an organizational unit carry ing out the collection of live plants(genera, varieties, selected breeding lineage, mutants, ecotypes and natural populations) with defined features important for research and practical breeding purposes. 6. The range of duties of the Leading Collections shall comprise : collection and continuous enlarging of plant resources through the exchange of materials and collection from natural standings and cultiva ted fields; maintaining of these materials 1inconditions ensuring their usefulness and genetic purity; evaluation under field and laboratory conditions, keeping records and exchange of information and materials of all forms of plants in Poland; informing the National Department of Plant Gene Resources of the Institute of Breeding and Acclimation of Plants(IHAR) about the stock of material possessed and material assessment results in accordance with the methods defined. lodging suggestions to the National Department of Plant Gene Resources of the IHAR concerning international cooperation within the scope of its specialization. 7. The Ministers of Agriculture, of Science, University Education 'and Engineering, of the Light Industry and the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences oblige the managers of the subordinate to them organizational units possessing a collection of plants to : sutmit to the Leading Collections and to the National Department of Plant Gene Resources IHAR all specifications of the possessed plant forms till 1 December 1979 and thereafter shall systematically inform the Leading Collections and the National Department of plant Gene Resources IHAR about the newly acquired material; transfer free of charge on request of the Leading Collections and the National Department of Plant Gene Resources IHAR all the possessed forms within one year of the date of acquisition. 8. The materials in the Leading Collections shall be catalogued in the National Department of Plant GeneEResources IHAR catalogue and shall consis t State property. 9. The Minister of Agriculture shall cover the costs of running and developing the National Department of Plant Gene Resources IHAR. 3 10. $he costs of running and developing Leading Collections shall be covered by the appropriate Ministers within which the Leading Collections had been established, and in case of the Polish Academy of Sciences by the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 11. This agreement is enacted on the day of its signing. The Minister of Agriculture : (-), Henryk Burczyk, Dr., Hab., Under-Secretary of State. The Minister of Science, University Education and Engineering: (-), Mieczy slaw Kazimierczuk, MA., Under-Secretary of State. The Minister of Light Industry : (-), Wieslaw Szymczak, MSc., Eng., Under Secretary of JSt a t e . Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences : (-), Tadeusz Orlow ski, First Deputy of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Warsaw, Powsin Pulawy lHAR Poznan(Borowo) Union of Agr, and Hort. Seed Prod. Plant Breeding Station Wiatrowa Vegetables Inst. Skierniewice Potato Inst. Bonin Pomicultural Inst. Skierniewice Pomicultural Inst. Skierniewice Inst~ Nat. Fibres Poznan Inst. Cult. Fert. and Soil Science The Botany Garden of the Pol. Acad, Sci. Translation from the Polish. Annex to the Agreement of 20 August 1979. SPECIFICATION OF LEADING COLLECfIONS. 1. Wheat lHAR Radzikow 2. Barley lHAR Radzikow 3. Rye lHAR Radzikow 4. Oats lHAR Radzikow 5. Triticale Agricultural Academy Lublin 6. Corn lHAR Smolice 7. Grasses lHAR Bydgoszcz 8. Lupin Plant Breeding Station Wiatrowa 9. Horae bean lHAR Radzikow 10. Soya lHAR Radzikow 11. Clover, alfalfa lHAR Krakow 12. Sugar & fodder beet lHAR Bydgoszcz 13. Oily plants(popy, rapeseed, sunflower) 14. Pea, serradella, lintel 15. Vegetables 16. Potato 17. Orchard plants 18. Decorative plants 19. Fibrous plants 20. Tobacco, hop, buck wheat 21. Wild species of cultivated plants