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I. TEST GUIDELINES FOR ADOPTION
TC/48/2
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2. The Technical Committee (TC), at its forty-seventh session, held in Geneva from April 4 to 6,2011,
noted that the Council, at its forty-third ordinary session, held in Geneva on October 22, 2009, had endorsed
the practice whereby Test Guidelines are adopted by the TC on behalf of the Council on the basis of the
program of work approved by the Council, without the individual Test Guidelines being submitted to the
Council for review (see document C/43/17 “Report”, paragraph 38).
3. At its forty-fifth ordinary session, held in Geneva on October 20, 2011, the Council noted the work of
the TC, the TWPs and the BMT, as provided in document C/45/10, and approved the programs of work set
out in document C/45/10 (see document C/45/17 “Report on the decisions”, paragraph 34).
4. The TC, at its forty-seventh session, held in Geneva from April 4 to 6, 2011, agreed that the wording of
document TGP/7/2, as adopted by the Council at its forty-fourth ordinary session, held in Geneva on October
21, 2010, with regard to Chapter 4.1.4 should not be followed in the Test Guidelines to be adopted at its
forty-seventh session. It agreed that the Test Guidelines to be adopted by the TC should incorporate the
amended wording for Chapter 4.1.4, as follows: (see document TC/47/26 “Report on the Conclusions”,
paragraph 98).
Alternative 1: “Unless otherwise indicated, for the purposes of distinctness, all observations on single
plants should be made on { x } plants or parts taken from each of { x } plants and any other observations
made on all plants in the test, disregarding any off-type plants.”
Alternative 2: “Unless otherwise indicated, for the purposes of distinctness, all observations on single
plants should be made on { x } plants or parts taken from each of { x } plants and any other observations
made on all plants in the test, disregarding any off-type plants. In the case of observations of parts taken
from single plants, the number of parts to be taken from each of the plants should be { y }.”
5. The TC noted that the Council, at its forty-fifth ordinary session held on October 20, 2011, would need
to adopt the revised text for document TGP/7 before the Test Guidelines could be adopted. Therefore, it
agreed to adopt the Test Guidelines subject to the Council adopting the necessary revision to
document TGP/7 ( see document TC/47/26 “Report on the Conclusions”, paragraph 99).
6. The TC adopted the Test Guidelines listed in document TC/47/26 “Report on the Conclusions”,
paragraph 100, on the basis of the amendments, as specified in the Annex II to the document TC/47/26
“Report on the Conclusions”, which was circulated in advance, and the linguistic changes recommended by
the TC-EDC, subject to the Council adopting the necessary revision to document TGP/7 as set out in
paragraph 4 of this document.
7. The Council, at its forty-fifth ordinary session held in Geneva on October 20, 2011, adopted the
revision of document TGP/7 “Development of Test Guidelines” (document TGP/7/3), on the basis of the
proposed amendments to document TGP/7/2, as presented in Annex I to document C/45/13 “Adoption of
documents” (see document C/45/17 “Report on the Decisions”, paragraph 14).
8. For the year 2011, one session was scheduled for each of the existing TWPs. At those sessions, it
was decided to submit the draft Test Guidelines in Annex I to the TC for adoption.
9. The partial revisions for the following Test Guidelines are specified in document TC/48/17:
• French Bean (document TG/12/9)
• Strawberry (document TG/22/10)
• Kalanchoe (document TG/78/4)
• New Guinea Impatiens (document TG/196/2)
10. The TC is invited to:
(a) note the procedure for the adoption of Test
Guidelines as set out in paragraphs 2 and 3,
(b) note the adoption of the Test Guidelines, as
set out in paragraphs 4 and 5; and