E TWF/44/11 ORIGINAL: English DATE: April 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW VARIETIES OF PLANTS Geneva Forty-Fourth Session Napier, New Zealand, April 29 to May 3, 2013 REVISION OF DOCUMENT TGP/7: GROWTH STAGE IN TEST GUIDELINES Document prepared by the Office of the Union The purpose of this document is to consider guidance on indicating the growth stage at which to observe characteristics in the Test Guidelines for a future revision of document of Test “Development Guidelines”. The following abbreviations are used in this document: TC: Technical Committee TC-EDC: Enlarged Editorial Committee TWA: Technical Working Party for Agricultural Crops TWC: Technical Working Party on Automation and Computer Programs TWF: Technical Working Party for Fruit Crops TWO: Technical Working Party for Ornamental Plants and Trees TWPs: Technical Working Parties TWV: Technical Working Party for Vegetables The structure of this document is as follows: ANNEX: EXAMPLES OF INDICATIONS OF AT WHICH TO OBSERVE CHARACTERISTICS EXISTING The Technical Committee (TC), at its forty-ninth session held in Geneva from March 18 to 20, 2013, agreed that clarification should be provided in a future revision of document TGP/7 with regard to the inclusion of growth stage keys in Chapter 8 of the Test Guidelines and requested the Office of the Union to prepare draft guidance for consideration by the TWPs at their sessions in 2013 (see document TC/49/41 on the Conclusions”, paragraph 83). “Report
E TWF/44/11 ORIGINAL: English DATE: April 18, 2013 INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW VARIETIES OF PLANTS Geneva Forty-Fourth Session Napier, New Zealand, April 29 to May 3, 2013 REVISION OF DOCUMENT Document prepared by the Office of the Union The purpose of this document is to consider guidance on indicating the growth stage at which to observe characteristics in the Test Guidelines for a future revision of document TGP/7: “Development of Test Guidelines”. The following abbreviations are used in this document: TC: Technical Committee TC-EDC: Enlarged Editorial Committee TWA: Technical Working Party for Agricultural Crops TWC: Technical Working Party on Automation and Computer Programs TWF: Technical Working Party for Fruit Crops TWO: Technical Working Party for Ornamental Plants and Trees TWPs: Technical Working Parties TWV: Technical Working Party for Vegetables The structure of this document is as follows: ANNEX: EXAMPLES OF INDICATIONS OF GROWTH STAGE AT WHICH TO OBSERVE CHARACTERISTICS IN EXISTING TEST GUIDELINES The Technical Committee (TC), at its forty-ninth session held in Geneva from March 18 to 20, 2013, agreed that clarification should be provided in a future revision of document TGP/7 with regard to the inclusion of growth stage keys in Chapter 8 of the Test Guidelines and requested the Office of the Union to prepare draft guidance for consideration by the TWPs at their sessions in 2013 (see document TC/49/41 “Report on the Conclusions”, paragraph 83).
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