Crop seed production and management permit management approach
 
Ministry of Agriculture Order No. 3 of 011
"Crop  seed production license management" has been the Ministry of  Agriculture in 2011 fourth executive meeting, is hereby promulgated,  September 25, 2011 shall come into force.
Minister Han
2011-08-22
 
Crop seed production and management permit management approach
Chapter I General Provisions
In  order to strengthen crop seed production, license management,  standardize crop seed production, and operation, under the "Seed Law"  formulated.
The second crop seed production and business license application, review, issuance and monitoring, application of this approach.
Third  above the county level agricultural administrative departments in  accordance with the division of responsibilities, is responsible for  crop seed production and operation licenses in the acceptance, review,  issuance and supervision.
Article IV is  responsible for vetting, issuance of crop seed production and operation  licenses in the administrative department of agriculture, crop seed  production should be operating permit for conditions and procedures in  the office of publicity.
Article shall be  in accordance with the administrative department of agriculture will  help protect the safety of agricultural production, improved crop  breeding and production levels, to promote the principle of fair  competition, according to payment of crop seed production and business  license.
Chapter II Production License
Sixth  seed production of major commodity crops, the main crop seed shall  obtain the production license (hereinafter referred to as seed  production license).
Hybrid seeds of major  crops and their parental seed, all the sub-conventional types of the  original production of production licenses by the local county  agricultural administrative department and the government, the  provincial government issued the administrative department of  agriculture. Other major crops, seed production  license by the production of local people's governments above the county  level administrative department of agriculture issued.
Location  of non-major crops production in other provinces (autonomous regions  and municipalities) as the main crop, seed producers to apply for  production licenses, local administrative departments for agriculture  production should be accepted and shall be issued.
Article VII apply for seed production license shall meet the following conditions:
(A)  for hybrid rice, hybrid corn seeds and its parent seed production  license, the registered capital of not less than 30 million yuan; apply  for other major crops, seed production license, the registered capital  of not less than $ 5 million;
(B) the  production of varieties by species validation; production of new plant  varieties of seeds, varieties should also obtain the written consent;
(C)  has good clarity of analysis units, electronic scale, home-bed  equipment, electrophoresis, electrophoresis tank, sample mill, oven,  biological microscopes, refrigerators and 1 (sets) or more, electronic  balance (the amount by a sense of one thousandth  and one millionth) more than 1 set, for sampling, sub sampler,  germination boxes each 2 pieces (sets) above; application of hybrid  rice, hybrid corn seed production license, should also be expanded with  pcr by meter, pH meter, autoclaves, magnetic  stirrer, heated water bath, high-speed refrigerated centrifuge, and 1  pipette sets (sets) or more;
(D) laboratory  than 100 square meters; application of hybrid rice, hybrid corn seeds  and its parent seed production licenses, laboratory 150 square meters;
(E)  of the 500 square meters of warehouses, drying yard than 1,000 square  meters, or the corresponding seed drying facilities and equipment;
(F)  full-time seed production technology, storage technology and the  provincial people's government administrative departments of agriculture  seeds passing the examination, inspection staff (covering the field  test for sampling and indoor test, same below) of three or more; Among  them, the production of hybrid rice, hybrid corn seeds and its parent  seed, seed production and seed inspectors and technical personnel of  five or more;
(G) manufacturing sites without quarantine pests;
(H) comply with the requirements of isolated seed production procedures and production conditions;
(Ix) other conditions prescribed by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Article for seed production license, shall submit the following materials:
(A) seed production permit application form;
(B)  the capital verification report or apply for one year before the date  of the annual financial statements and audit reports and other  intermediaries that copies of the registered capital; seed testing  equipment lists and copies of purchase invoices; producer located in the  provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) seed  laboratory, warehouse property certificate; producer located in the  provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) of the drying yard  proof of ownership (or lease Agreement), or seed drying facilities,  equipment, property certificate; metrology institutes issued The test involves measurement of the test equipment certificate; related facilities and equipment and real photos of note;
(C) seed production, storage, inspection technician qualification certificate and a copy of labor contract;
(D) seed production sites and quarantine certificates;
(E) Cultivar Registration certificate;
(F) production of new plant varieties of seeds, varieties with the written consent to submit evidence;
(G) isolation and production of seed production conditions, safety instructions;
(H) Other documents required by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Seed  production permit applicant has obtained the appropriate license to  operate crop seeds, from the second preceding paragraph, the provisions  of the submitted materials and seed storage, inspection technician  qualification certificate and a copy of the labor contract, but the seed  business license shall be submitted copy.
Article IX audit authority shall accept the application within 20 working days to complete the audit. Audit  should be on production sites, drying yard or drying facilities,  storage facilities, inspection facilities and equipment for site visits  and inspection of original supporting materials (seeds that have  appropriate business licenses only to examine the production site). With  the conditions prescribed in this way, the signing of audit opinions,  reporting issuing authority; not passed the audit, written notice to the  applicant and the reasons.
Issuing  authority shall receive an audit opinion and the application materials  within 20 working days from the date of issuance to complete the work. Issuing authority deems necessary, may conduct site inspections. Meet  the conditions, seed production permit and to issue notice; not  eligible, notify the applicant in writing and explain the reasons.
Article  seed production permit shall indicate the license number, business  name, domicile, legal representative, registered capital, the issuing  authority, notice number, the issuing time, and the production of seed  crops, variety name, validation number, number of new plant varieties, production locations, expiration date and other projects.
License number "__ (x) Agriculture many kinds of raw words (x) the first x number." Among  them, first issuing authority referred to in brackets, the second  bracket for the first time issuing reign, the third number is the order  of number four seed production marked ;"__" type: b for the hybrid rice  and hybrid corn seed and its parent seed, c is the other major crop seeds.
Article XI seed production permit valid for three years. License  valid in the production of the same company within the same issuing  authority for a similar crop varieties to increase production from the  original certificate issuing authorities in filling the corresponding  species, no longer be issuing production licenses.
License  after the expiration of seed production, seed producers in the same  issuing authority need to apply for a new license, the license shall  expire 70 days ago to re-apply.
Chapter business license
Article  XII of the seed crop management, crop seed shall obtain the business  license (hereinafter referred to as the seed business license).
Hybrid  seeds of major crops and their parental seed, all the sub-conventional  types of the original license, the operators from the seeds of  agriculture where the county government administrative department and  the provincial people's government issued the administrative department  of agriculture.
The following seed business  license from the seed where the provincial government operators  agricultural administrative department and the Ministry of Agriculture  issued:
(A) in the seed company's seed import and export business license;
(B)  the implementation of breeding, production, management combined  registered capital of 1 billion of the company's seed business license.
Other  crop seed business license, the operators by the seed local people's  governments above the county level administrative department of  agriculture issued.
Article XIII of application of hybrid rice, hybrid corn seeds and its parent seed license shall meet the following conditions:
(A) the registered capital of not less than 30 million yuan, fixed assets of not less than 10 million;
(B)  has a good analysis of the net sets, electronic scale, home-bed  equipment, electrophoresis, electrophoresis tank, sample mill, oven,  biological microscopes, refrigerators and 1 (sets) or more, electronic  balance (the amount by a sense of one thousandth  and one millionth) more than 1 set, for sampling, sub sampler,  germination boxes each 2 pieces (sets) or more, pcr amplification,  acidity, autoclaves, magnetic stirrer, constant  temperature water bath, high-speed refrigerated centrifuge, and 1  pipette sets (sets) above; laboratory 150 square meters;
(C)  meet the requirements of Article 7 of the fifth seed storage, drying  yard, or the appropriate drying facilities, business premises 300 square  meters;
(D) with seed processing  equipment, with a total processing capacity of hybrid maize seed is not  less than 10 tons / hour, hybrid rice seed is not less than 5 tons /  hour, processing plant 500 square meters;
(E)  of the seed processing technology full-time staff of more than five,  seed storage and technical personnel more than three, the provincial  people's government administrative departments of agriculture seed of  passing the examination of more than five inspectors;
(F) other conditions prescribed by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Article  14 When applying hybrid rice, hybrid maize seed and their parents  should be outside of the seed processing and packaging of agricultural  seed business license shall meet the following conditions:
(A)  for the main crop seed business license, and registered capital of not  less than 500 million yuan, fixed assets less than $ 25 million;  application for non-major crop seed business license of the registered  capital of no less than 200 million yuan, fixed assets of less than 100 million;
(B)  has a good analysis of the net sets, electronic scale, home-bed  equipment, electrophoresis, electrophoresis tank, sample mill, oven,  biological microscopes, refrigerators and 1 (sets) or more, electronic  balance (the amount by a sense of one thousandth  and one millionth) more than 1 set, for sampling, sub sampler,  germination boxes each 2 pieces (sets) above; laboratory than 100 square  meters;
(C) the operation of major crop  seed, in compliance with the requirements of Article 7 of the fifth seed  storage, drying yard, or the appropriate drying facilities, business  premises 200 square meters; operators of non-major crop seeds, there are  300 square feet warehouse meters, 500 square meters of drying yard or the appropriate drying facilities, business premises 200 square meters;
(D)  operating conventional rice, wheat seed, seed processing equipment the  total processing capacity of 10 tons / hour; management of soybean seed,  seed processing equipment the total processing capacity of 30,000 tons /  hour; management of cotton, rape seed, seed processing  equipment total processing capacity of 100 tons / hour; operate other  crop seeds, with the appropriate seed processing equipment;
(5)  business major crop seed, seed processing plant 500 square meters;  operators of non-major crop seed, seed processing plant 200 square  meters;
(F) full-time technical staff of  seed processing, storage and technical personnel and by the provincial  people's government administrative departments of agriculture seed of  passing the examination of three or more inspectors.
Ministry  of Agriculture can apply without processing, packaging of agricultural  seed business license, and its registered capital and fixed assets  should be in line with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the  first, seed testing, storage facilities, equipment and personnel from  the provincial people's specific requirements Government agricultural administrative department under the Ministry of Agriculture reported the record.
Article 15 seed companies for seed import and export business license shall meet the following conditions:
(B) of the Regulations of the corresponding crop seed business license issued by the other conditions.
Implementation  of Article XVI breeding, production, management combined registered  capital of 1 billion of the company, the seed business license  application, it shall meet the following conditions:
(A) not less than 50 million yuan in fixed assets;
(B)  has a good analysis of the net sets, electronic scale, home-bed  equipment, electrophoresis, electrophoresis tank, sample mill, oven,  biological microscopes, refrigerators of two (sets) or more, electronic  balance (the amount by a sense of First, the  thousandth and ten thousandth) 2 sets or more, for sampling, sub  sampler, germination boxes each 3 pieces (sets) or more, pcr  amplification, acidity, autoclaves, magnetic stirrer, constant  temperature water bath, high-speed refrigerated centrifuge, pipettes of  2 sets (sets) above; laboratory than 200 square meters;
(C)  for operating the main crop seeds, there are more than 1500 square  meters warehouse, drying yard for more than 3000 square meters, or the  corresponding seed drying facilities, 500 square meters of business  premises; for operating non-major crop seeds, there are 300 square feet  warehouse meters, 500 square meters of drying yard or the corresponding seed drying facilities, business premises 300 square meters;
(4)  Application and operation of hybrid rice seeds and hybrid corn seed  parent, shall be equipped with its business scale seed seed drying  facilities and equipment, hybrid rice seed and its parent seed  processing equipment the total processing capacity of 10 tons / hour ,  hybrid corn seeds and its parent seed processing equipment the total  processing capacity of 20 tons / hour, more than 800 square meters  processing workshop; for operating other crop seeds, processing capacity  and processing plant to the Article 14 fourth, fifth items corresponding requirements;
(E)  full-time seed production, processing, storage and technical personnel  and by the provincial people's government administrative departments of  agriculture seed of passing the examination of five or more inspectors;
(F)  have a special breeding institutions, fixed breeders and working  expenses, the annual research funding of not less than 10% of annual  profits; its own research laboratory 300 square meters, a stable  breeding sites more than 100 acres, of which in  the country more than three different ecological zones have three or  more test points, each point more than 10 acres of land and the  corresponding experimental planting, harvesting, types of test  facilities and equipment; full-time engaged in research and breeding of  the intermediate above title (or related Bachelor  degree or above) for more than five researchers; main crop seed  production and management, each engaged in research and crop breeding  should also be full-time senior title (or a related Master's degree or  above) the researchers a more;
(G) a stable seed production base. Among  them, business major crop seed, the base for more than 5,000 acres;  operate other crop seeds, the base more than 500 acres;
(H) have a sound service system;
(I)  for the main crop seed business, there are two or more separate  applications to apply for business name and by state-level examination  of varieties, or more than 5 separate application to apply for business  name and at least three provinces (autonomous regions and  municipalities) through the provincial approval of  varieties; for operating non-major crop seeds, and five more in the  name of individual applicant to obtain new varieties of plant species;
(J)  application for business management capacity of seeds of crop species  in the three years before the date of application (excluding  applications for the year), accounting for more than 1 year have the  type of crop seed market share of more than 1%. Variety of intellectual property management company accounted for more than 10% the proportion of the total;
(Xi) other requirements prescribed by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Article XVII for seed business license shall submit the following materials:
(A) the crop seed business license application form;
(B)  the capital verification report or apply for one year before the date  of the annual financial statements and audit reports and other  intermediaries registered capital and fixed assets, copies of proof;  applicant the nature of capital formation and other basic information  supporting materials;
(C) the seed testing  and processing facilities and equipment lists and copies of purchase  invoices; seed laboratory, processing plant, warehouse property  certificate; drying yard proof of ownership (or lease Agreement), or  seed drying facilities and equipment ownership  certificate; metrology institutes involved in measurement issued by the  inspection, packaging equipment test certificate; related facilities and  equipment and real photos of note;
(D) of seed testing, processing, storage and other relevant technical qualification certificate and a copy of labor contract;
(E) Ministry of Agriculture of the other materials.
Article  18 The implementation of breeding, production and management combined  company, the application issued by the Ministry of Agriculture crop seed  business license, in addition to the provisions of Article XVII of the  material presented, should also submit the following materials:
(A)  the breeding sector note; own research and breeding facilities,  equipment and real property that copies of photographs; scientific  breeding and variety testing sites over five years a copy of the  transfer agreement;
(B) the breeders of the title (or qualifications) that materials and labor contract;
(C) for three years prior to the annual audited financial statements and the agency copies of the report;
(D)  Variety Approval certificate or copy of certificate of plant variety  rights, the right to operate a variety of independent production of  proof; three years before the date of application for license  applications for crop seed sales volume, turnover and market share  accounting for a description and relevant evidence; proprietary varieties of seed sales volume, turnover and related evidence shows;
(E)  3 years before the application date evidence base for seed production,  including seed production locations (specific to the village), seed  size, the base village (group) contact person and telephone entrusted  seed table, and 10 seed copy of the contract, or a copy of the land transfer agreement;
(F) evidence of sound service system, including after-sales service system and service network construction, etc.;
(G)  before the expiry of re-application, should also provide the original  license period seed seed production and management situation of breeding  and research evidence.
Article 19 Audit institutions shall accept the application within 20 working days to complete the audit. Audit  authority should be place of business, processing storage facilities,  inspection facilities and equipment for site visits and inspection of  the original evidence. With the conditions  prescribed in this way, the signing of audit opinions, reporting issuing  authority; not passed the audit, written notice to the applicant and  the reasons.
Issuing authority shall  receive the application materials and an audit opinion within 20 working  days to complete the issuance of work. Issuing authority deems necessary, may conduct site inspections. Meet  the conditions, the seed business license and to issue notice; not  eligible, notify the applicant in writing and explain the reasons.
Diershitiao  seed business license shall indicate the license number, business name,  domicile, legal representative, registered capital, the issuing  authority, notice number, date of issue, and the range of crop  management, management methods, effective area, effective term projects such as:
(A)  the license number as "__ (x) of agricultural species by many words (x)  the first x number", the first certification authority referred to in  brackets, the second bracket for the first time certification reign, the  third number is marked on the sequence number  ;"__" four business types: a Ministry of Agriculture issued, the  implementation of breeding, production, operation combined; b for the  hybrid rice and hybrid corn seeds and its parent seed; c of hybrid rice,  hybrid corn other than the main crop seeds; d non-major crop seeds; e engaged in the seed export business;
(B)  the range of crop management, crop fill in the name of the main crops,  mainly crops, non-filled vegetables, flowers, hemp and other crops  category;
(C) the seed mode of operation, complete processing, packaging, wholesale, retail or import and export;
(D)  effective area filled by administrative region, the maximum does not  exceed the jurisdiction issuing authority, the decision by the issuing  authority.
Twenty-one seed business license is valid for 5 years. Permit  marked change in the life of the project, procedures should be changed  according to the original application procedures, and provide evidence.
Continue  to engage in business license after the expiration of the seed  business, seed operators shall expire six months ago to re-apply.
Article  22 seeds operator specializing in the packaging is no longer packing  seeds, or seeds by a seed operation license to the operator a written  commission consignment of seed, the seed can not apply for business  license, but there should be fixed place of business.
Specializes  in the packaging is no longer packing seed, seed should be purchased  with the seed and the seed business license purchase and sales contracts  signed by enterprises.
Business  license with the seed by the seed consignment operators entrust their  seed shall be entrusted with the commissioning party signed a  consignment contract.
Article 23  seeds operators, permit the establishment of effective regional  branches, it shall apply to industrial and commercial administrative  organs of industry and commerce registration, and get or change a  business license within 15 days, to the local county government  agricultural administrative departments and the original issuing authorities. The  record should be submitted to the seed business license, business  license and a copy of the residence of branches, operating methods,  responsible person's name, telephone and other materials.
Chapter IV Supervision and Administration
Article  24 shall be in accordance with the main producers of crop seed seed  seed production permit the organization of production. Seed  producers, seed production files should be established, and 30 days  after sowing, production location, species name, the production area,  and other information to produce local county government agricultural  administrative department. County government  administrative departments of agriculture production information should  be summarized and escalation to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Article  25 The operator shall establish seed seed business files, contain the  seed source, processing, storage, transportation and quality testing of a  brief description of various aspects and responsibilities, sales  destination and so on.
Seed enterprises  should be the end of May each year before the main business activities  of the previous year, the issuing authority report. Issuing authority shall, after the seed business information summary report Ministry of Agriculture.
Article  26 The people's governments above the county level administrative  department of agriculture shall seed production, seed production  managers, business conduct supervision and inspection.
Article  27 in the license period, one of the following circumstances, the  issuing authority shall cancel the license and make an announcement:
(A) seed production and business to stop production and business activities, more than 1 year;
(B)  seed production, operators no longer have the license with the  provisions of the conditions still fail to meet requirements by the  deadline for correction.
Article 28 The  applicants did not disclose relevant information or provides false  materials for seed production, operation license, the competent  administrative department of agriculture should not be permitted, and  relevant information. The applicant shall re-apply within one year seed production and business license.
Applicant  fraud, bribery or other improper means to obtain seed production,  business license, the administrative department of agriculture should be  the administrative license revocation, and relevant information. The applicant shall re-apply in three years seed production and business license.
Article  29 The administrative departments of agriculture should be higher for  lower-level administrative departments of agriculture, seed production  and management permit conduct supervision and inspection. One  of the following circumstances, shall be ordered to correct, the  directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible  persons shall be given administrative sanctions; constitute a crime  shall be transferred to judicial organs for criminal prosecution:
(A) failure to grant permission issued by the seed production and business license;
(B) arbitrarily reduce seed production release issued standard operating license;
(C) other non-law issued by the seed production and business licenses.
Article  30 The administrative departments of agriculture according to the law,  revocation, cancellation of the violator's seed production, business  license, it should be decided within five working days after the making  of industrial and commercial administrative organs shall notify the  cancellation or change of business license.
第 三十一条 agricultural administrative departments shall establish a seed  production and license management online inquiry system, the relevant  licensing information published, but required by law, except  confidential.
Learn to manage the process  of seed production, the operator's trade secrets, agricultural  administrative departments and their staff shall be kept confidential.
Chapter V Supplementary Provisions
Article 32 The term seed production, is the planting, harvesting, drying, or drying seed activities.
The  term seed business, refers to the production of seed cleaning, grading,  drying, coating and other processing and packaging, labeling and sales  activities.
Article 33 The term seed  processing equipment, is the match between the host and auxiliary  systems and fixed installations in the plant room, to achieve seed  selection, measurement and packaging of seed processing system  streamlined functionality. Hosts including wind  screen cleaning machine (some should have before and after winnowing  suction channel, dual-settling chamber; screening should be part of more  than three sieve), gravity cleaning machines and computer measurement  packaging coding equipment; support system is mainly including delivery systems, storage systems, dust removal system, cleaning system and electric control systems. Hybrid  rice seed processing equipment also includes the ability to complete  the length of the cleaning operation nest eye tube cleaning machine.
The  term fixed assets, is an enterprise for the production of products and  services, for rental or administrative purposes, the use of more than 12  months of non-monetary assets, including houses, buildings, machines,  machinery, transportation production and business activities and other related equipment, appliances, tools and so on.
Article  34 of the Regulations of seed research, production, processing,  inspection, storage, etc., to be signed with the host company has more  than 3 years of labor contracts.
Of the  Regulations of seed production, processing, testing facilities and  equipment, and seed laboratory, warehouse, seed drying facilities,  processing plants, should be for the applicant's own property.
Article  35 of the genetically modified crop seed production and business  licensing requirements, be formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Article  36 The administrative department of agriculture does not have a  district (county, city), seed production, business license by the  prefectural (city) people's government agricultural administrative  department.
Article  37 crop seed production and management permit printed by the Ministry  of Agriculture, the relevant forms from the Ministry of Agriculture to  develop a unified format.
Article 38 These Measures September 25, 2011 shall come into force. Ministry  of Agriculture, February 26, 2001 release, July 1, 2004 amendments to  the "crop seed production license management" (Ministry of Agriculture  Order No. 48) shall be repealed simultaneously. Ministry  of Agriculture issued before the implementation of these measures on  seed production, business license provisions are inconsistent with this  approach, the application of this approach.
This  approach has been made prior to the implementation of agricultural seed  production permit, and the validity of this approach to the effective  date to April 1, 2012 expiration of the company, its seed production  licenses are valid are automatically extended to April 1, 2012; has obtain  crop seed business license, and the validity of this approach to the  effective date to September 25, 2012 expiration of the company, its seed  business license is valid automatically extended to September 25, 2012.