The meeting will start at 10am on the 18 March 2025.
Fifty-second session of the Specialized Section on Standardization of Seed Potatoes (GE.6)
18 March (10:00) - 20 March (13:00) 2025
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Agend item 1: Adoption of the agenda
71094 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/1 - Annotated provisional agenda _ 397981 _ English _ 773 _ 430295 _ pdf
71094 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/1 - Annotated provisional agenda _ 397981 _ French _ 780 _ 430296 _ pdf
71094 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/1 - Annotated provisional agenda _ 397981 _ Russian _ 864 _ 430297 _ pdf
Agenda item 2 (a): Recent developments in the United Nations, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and its subsidiary bodies
71095 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/2024/2 - Report of the seventy-ninth session of the Working Party on Agricultural Quality Standards _ 397243 _ English _ 773 _ 428223 _ pdf
Agenda item 3: Revision of the Standard for Seed Potatoes
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/3 - Proposed revised Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 398474 _ English _ 773 _ 431103 _ pdf
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/3 - Proposals for revisions to the Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 387523 _ English _ 773 _ 405361 _ pdf
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/3 - Proposals for revisions to the Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 387523 _ French _ 780 _ 405362 _ pdf
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/3 - Proposals for revisions to the Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 387523 _ Russian _ 864 _ 405363 _ pdf
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2023/3 - Preliminary proposals for revisions to the Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 375408 _ English _ 773 _ 376082 _ pdf
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2023/3 - Preliminary proposals for revisions to the Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 375408 _ French _ 780 _ 376083 _ pdf
71214 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2023/3 - Preliminary proposals for revisions to the Standard for Seed Potatoes _ 375408 _ Russian _ 864 _ 376084 _ pdf
Agenda item 4: Sample size and interpretation of diagnostics used to support certification
71215 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/4 - Sample sizes for virus testing and field inspection _ 398475 _ English _ 773 _ 431104 _ pdf
Agenda item 5: Guide on minituber production
Agenda item 6: Soil-borne vectored viruses
71217 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/6 - Draft position on soil-borne viruses _ 398476 _ English _ 773 _ 431105 _ pdf
Agenda item 7: Revision of the position of the Specialized Section on vigour of seed potatoes
71218 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/5 - The position of the Specialized Section on vigour of seed potatoes _ 387524 _ English _ 773 _ 405044 _ pdf
71218 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/5 - The position of the Specialized Section on vigour of seed potatoes _ 387524 _ French _ 780 _ 405045 _ pdf
71218 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/5 - The position of the Specialized Section on vigour of seed potatoes _ 387524 _ Russian _ 864 _ 405046 _ pdf
71218 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/6 - Vigour of seed potatoes – input by Potato Certification Service South Africa _ 387525 _ English _ 773 _ 405047 _ pdf
71218 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/6 - Vigour of seed potatoes – input by Potato Certification Service South Africa _ 387525 _ French _ 780 _ 405048 _ pdf
71218 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2024/6 - Vigour of seed potatoes – input by Potato Certification Service South Africa _ 387525 _ Russian _ 864 _ 405049 _ pdf
Agenda item 8: True potato seeds and plantlets
71219 _ ECE/CTCS/WP.7/GE.6/2025/7 - Experience of the Netherlands (Kingdom of the) with true potato seeds _ 398477 _ English _ 773 _ 431106 _ pdf
Agenda item 9: Impact of climate change on seed potato production
The Specialized Section will receive an update by the rapporteur’s group.
Agenda item 10: New and emerging diseases and issues
Delegations are invited to provide updates and share information on the topic.
Agenda item 11: New technologies – impact and use in seed potato certification
Agenda item 12: Capacity-building
Agenda item 13: Impact and use of standards
As part of its efforts to document the use and impact of the standards, in 2023 the secretariat in cooperation with the WP.7 Bureau launched a survey on the application of ECE standards and their link to relevant legislative frameworks in participating countries.
The Specialized Section is invited to discuss further ways of documenting the use and impact of the ECE standard for seed potatoes and related guidance materials.