Measures for management of agricultural seed substance resources.

These Measures aim at strengthening the protection of agricultural seed substance resources and promoting their exchange and use by regulating their collection, identification, registration, preservation, use and management.
The Ministry of Agriculture shall establish a State Commission of Agricultural Seed Substance Resources to lay down the state development strategy, guidelines and policies of agricultural seed substance resources, and coordinate their management.
The Measures state that all agricultural seed substance resources collected, because of the possibility they may extinguish, must be submitted for registration and preservation at the state pools of seed substance and substances. Procedures for the identification, registration and preservation of agricultural seed substance resources are provided for in the text.
The Measures further provide for: reproduction and use of agricultural seed substance resources; procedures for international exchanges; information management of agricultural seed substance resources; offences and penalties; etc.