What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Added:(9) ‘stand’ means a delineated population of trees possessing sufficient uniformity in composition;

Added:(10) ‘seed orchard’ means a plantation of selected trees, where each tree is identified by a clone, family or provenance, which is isolated or managed to avoid or reduce pollination from outside sources, and managed to produce frequent, abundant and easily harvested crops of seed;

Added:(11) ‘parents of family(ies)’ means trees used as parents to obtain progeny by controlled or open pollination of one identified parent used as a female (‘mother tree’), with the pollen of one ‘father tree’, full sibling) or a number of identified or unidentified ‘father trees’ (half-sibling);

Added:(12) ‘clone’ means a group of individuals (ramets) derived originally from a single individual (ortet) by vegetative propagation, for example by cuttings, micropropagation, grafts, layers or divisions;

Added:(13) ‘clonal mixture’ means a mixture of identified clones in defined proportions;

Added:(14) ‘basic material’ means any of the following: seed source, stand, seed orchard, parents of family(ies), clone or clonal mixtures;

Added:(15) ‘unit of approval’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM that has been authorised by the competent authorities; [Am. 24]

Added:(16) ‘unit of notification’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM intended for the purpose of the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources that has been notified to the competent authorities; [Am. 25]

Added:(17) ‘seed lot’ means a set of extracted and/or cleaned seeds collected from approved basic material and processed uniformly; [Am. 26]

Added:(18) ‘plant lot’ means a set of planting stock that has been grownplants that have been produced from a single seed lot or a set of vegetatively propagated planting stockplants which has been raisedhave been produced in a delineable area and processed uniformly; [Am. 27]

Added:(19) ‘lot numbercode’ means the identification numbercode of the seed lot or plant lot, as appropriate; [Am. 28]

Added:(20) ‘provenance’ means the place in which any stand of trees is growing;

Added:(21) ‘sub-species’ means a group within a species that has become somewhat phenotypically and genetically different from the rest of the group;

Added:(22) ‘region of provenance’ means, in regard to species or sub-species, the area or group of areas subject to sufficiently uniform ecological conditions, in which stands or seed sources showing similar phenotypic or genetic characteristics are found, taking into account altitudinal boundaries, where appropriate;

Added:(23) ‘autochthonous stand’ means a stand of native tree species which has been continuously regenerated either by natural regeneration or artificially from FRM collected in the same stand or stands of native tree species within close proximity;

Added:(24) ‘indigenous stand’ means an autochthonous stand or a stand raised artificially from seed, where the origin of this stand and the stand itself are located in the same region of provenance;

Added:(25) ‘origin’ means the following:

Added:(a) for an autochthonous seed source or stand, the place in which the trees are growing;

Added:(b) for a non-autochthonous seed source or stand, the place from which the seed or plants were originally introduced;

Added:(c) for a seed orchard, the places where its components were originally located, such as their provenances or other relevant geographical information;

Added:(d) for the parents of families, the places where their components were originally located, such as their provenances or other relevant geographical information;

Added:(e) for a clone, the origin is the place, where the ortet is or was initially located or selected;

Added:(f) for a clonal mixture, the origins are the places, where the ortets are or were initially located or selected;

Added:(26) ‘location of the basic material’ means the geographical area or geographical position(s) of the basic material as appropriate for each category of FRM;

Added:(27) ‘place of production of clones or clonal mixtures or parents of families’ means the place or exact geographical position, where the FRM was produced;

Added:(28) ‘foundation stock’ means a plant, group of plants, FRM, DNA stock or genetic information of the clone, or clones in case of clonal mixture, that serves as a reference material for the control of the identity of the clone(s);

Added:(29) ‘set’ means a stem cutting without roots;

Added:(30) ‘marketing’ means the following commercial actions conducted by a professional operator: sale, holding or offering for the purpose of sale or any other way of transferring, distribution, including dispatching, within, or import into the Union, whether free of charge or not, of FRM; [Am. 29]

Added:(31) ‘professional operator’ means any natural or legal person involved professionally, with the authorisation of the competent authorities, in one or more of the following activities, aimed at the commercial exploitation of the FRM: [Am. 30]

Added:(a) production, including growing, multiplying and maintaining of the FRM;

Added:(b) marketing of the FRM;

Added:(c) storage, collection, dispatching and processing of the FRM;

Added:(32) ‘competent authority’ means a central or regional authority of a Member State, or, where applicable, the corresponding authority of a third country, responsible for the organisation of official controls, registration of basic material, certification of FRM and other official activities concerning the production and marketing of FRM, or any other authority to which that responsibility has been conferred, in accordance with Union law;

Added:(33) ‘source-identified’ means a category of FRM derived from basic material consisting of either a seed source or stand located within a single region of provenance and which meets the requirements set out in Annex II;

Added:(34) ‘selected’ means a category of FRM derived from basic material consisting of a stand located within a single region of provenance, which has been phenotypically selected at the population level and which meets the requirements set out in Annex III;

Added:(35) ‘qualified’ means a category of FRM derived from basic material consisting of seed orchards, parents of family(ies), clones or clonal mixtures, the components of which have been phenotypically selected at the individual level, and which meets the requirements set out in Annex IV;

Added:(36) ‘tested’ means a category of FRM derived from basic material consisting of stands, seed orchards, parents of family(ies), clones or clonal mixtures and which meets the requirements set out in Annex V;

Added:(37) ‘official certification’ means certification of source-identified, selected, qualified and tested FRM, if all relevant inspections and, where appropriate, sampling and FRM testing have been carried out by the competent authority and if it has been concluded that the FRM meets the respective requirements of this Regulation;

Added:(38) ‘category’ means FRM that qualifies as source-identified, selected, qualified or tested material;

Added:(39) ‘genetically modified organism’ means a genetically modified organism as defined in Article 2(2) of Directive 2001/18/EC, excluding organisms obtained through the techniques of genetic modification listed in Annex I B to Directive 2001/18/EC;

Added:(40) ‘NGT plant’ means plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques as defined in Article 3, point 2 of Regulation (EU) [Office of Publications, please insert reference to Regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed] of the European Parliament and of the Council ;

Added:(41) ‘seed transfer zones’ means an area and/or altitudinal zones designated by the competent authorities for the movement of FRM belonging to the source-identified and selected categories, taking into account, as appropriate, the origin and provenance of the FRM, provenance trials, environmental conditions and future climatic change projections;

Added:(42) ‘deployment area for seed orchards and parents of family(ies)’ means the area designated by the competent authorities, in which FRM belonging to the qualified and tested categories is adapted to the climatic and ecological conditions of that area, taking into account, as appropriate, the location of the seed orchards, parents of family(ies) and its components, results of progeny and provenance trials, environmental conditions and future climatic change projections; [Am. 31]

Added:(43) ‘deployment area for clones and clonal mixtures’ means the area designated by the competent authorities, in which FRM belonging to the qualified and tested categories is adapted to the climatic and ecological conditions of that area, taking into account, as appropriate, the origin or provenance of the clone(s), results of progeny and, provenance and clonal trials, the environmental conditions and future climatic change projections; [Am. 32]

Added:(44) ‘FOREMATIS’ means the Forest Reproductive Material Information System of the Commission;

Added:(45) ‘natural regeneration’ means the renewal of athe forest by trees that develop from seeds which have fallen and germinated in situnatural processes through natural seeding, sprouting, suckering or layering; [Am. 33]

Added:(46) ‘quality pests’ means pests fulfilling all of the following:

Added:(a) they are not Union quarantine pests, protected zone quarantine pests, or regulated non-quarantine pests (‘RNQPs’) within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, nor pests subject to the measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1) of that Regulation;

Added:(b) they occur during FRM production or storage; and

Added:(c) their presence has an unacceptable adverse impact on the quality of the FRM, and an unacceptable economic impact as regards the use of that FRM in the Union;

Added:(47) ‘practically free from quality pests’ means completely free from quality pests, or a situation where the presence of quality pests on the respective FRM is so low that those pests do not affect adversely the quality of that FRM. [Am. 34]

Added:CHAPTER II BASIC MATERIAL AND FRM DERIVING FROM IT

Added:Article 4 Approval of basic material for the production of FRM

Added:1. Only basic material approved by the competent authorities may be used for the production of FRM.

Added:2. Basic material intended for the production of FRM to be certified as ‘source-identified’ shall be approved, if it fulfils the requirements set out in Annex II.

Added:Basic material intended for the production of FRM to be certified as ‘selected’ shall be approved, if it fulfils the requirements set out in Annex III.

Added:Basic material intended for the production of FRM to be certified as ‘qualified’ shall be approved, if it fulfils the requirements set out in Annex IV.

Added:Basic material intended for the production of FRM to be certified as ‘tested’ shall be approved, if it fulfils the requirements set out in Annex V.

Added:The assessment of the requirements laid down in Annexes II to V for the approval of basic material, may include besides visual inspection, documentary checks, tests and analyses or other complementary methods, also the use of bio-molecular techniques, if they are considered more appropriate for the purpose of that approval.

Added:The basic material for all categories shall be assessed for its sustainability characteristics as set out in Annexes II to V, to take into account the climatic and ecological conditions.