List of National Designated Authorities
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AUSTRIA
Federal Office for Forests
Forest Reproductive Material
Hauptstraße 7
A-1140 Wien
Tel:  +43.1.878.38.22.23
Fax: +43.1.878.38.22.50
Email: ilse.strohschneider@bfw.gv.at
Website: http://bfw.ac.at

 

BELGIUM
BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION:
Ministère de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
Administration de l'Economie et de l'Emploi
Cellule Agriculture
WTC III - 4ème étage - bureau 62
Boulevard Simon Bolivar 30
B-100 BRUXELLES
Tel:  +32 2 2083594
Fax: +32 2 2084925
Emails: jlibert@mrbc.irisnet.be and svn@ibgebim.be

 

FLEMISH REGION:
Vlaamse Overheid
Agentschap voor Landbouw en Visserij
Productkwaliteitsbeheer
WTC 3, 12de verd.
Simon Bolivarlaan 30
B - 1000 BRUSSELS
Tel : +32.2.208.41.47
Fax : +32.2.208.41.84
Email : gilbert.crauwels@lv.vlaanderen.be and peter.simon@lv.vlaanderen.be

 

WALLOON REGION:
Ministère de la Région Wallone
Direction Générale de l'Agriculture
Division de la Recherche, du Développement et de la Qualité
Direction de la Qualité des Produits - Bloc B
Rue des Moulins de Meuse 4
B-5000 BEEZ
Tel:  +32 81 234896
Fax: +32 81.234844
Emails: d.winandy@mrw.wallonie.be and a.buxant@mrw.wallonie.be

 

Centre de Recherches de la nature, des forêts et du bois
Avenue du Maréchal Juin, 23
B-5030 GEMBLOUX
Tel:  +32.81.626.448
Fax: +32.81.615.727
Email: p.mertens@mrw.wallonie.be

 

BURKINA FASO
Centre National de Semences Forestières - CNSF
01 BP 2682
Ouagadougou 01
Tel: +226 50.35.61.11
Fax: +226 50.35.61.10
Email: cnsf@fasonet.bf

 

CANADA
National Forest Genetic Resource Centre
Natural Resources Canada
Canadian Forest Service-Atlantic
P.O. Box 4000
CDN-FREDERICTON, NB E3B 5P7
Tel:  +1 506 452 35 30
Fax: +1 506 452 35 25
Email: dsimpson@nrcan.gc.ca

 

CROATIA
Croatian Forest Research Institute - CFRI
Division of Genetics, Forest Tree Breeding and Seed Husbandry
Cvetno naselje 41
10450 Jastrebarsko
Tel: +385 1 62 73 000
Fax: +385 1 62 73 035
Email: tiborl@sumins.hr

Website: www.sumins.hr

 

DENMARK
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
Danish Plant Directorate
Skovbrynet 20
DK-2800 LYNGBY
Tel:  +45 45 26 36 00
Fax: +45 45 26 36 13
Email: fropla@pdir.dk
Website: www.pdir.dk

 

FINLAND
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Department of Forestry
P.O. Box 30 (Hallitukatu 3 A)
FIN-00023 GOVERNMENT, HELSINKI,
Tel:  +358 9 1605 24 10
Fax: +358 9 1605 24 87
e-mail: mikko.peltonen@mmm.fi

Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira
Plant Protection Department/Forest Reproductive Material
Mustialankatu 3
00790 Helsinki
Tel: +358 20 77 25055
Fax: +358 20 77 25085
Email: kari.leinonen@evira.fi
Website: www.evira.fi

 

FRANCE
Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'agroalimentaire et de la forêt
DGPAAT/SFRC/Sous-direction de la Forêt et du Bois
Bureau des investissements forestiers
19 avenue du Maine
F-75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Tel:  +33 1 49 55 51 26
Fax: +33 1 49 55 40 76
Email: pierre.bouillon@agriculture.gouv.fr

Cemagref
Domaine des Barres
45290 NOGENT SUR VERNISSON
Tel:  +33.2.38.95.03.55
Fax: +33.2.38.95.03.46
Email: bernard.heois@cemagref.fr

 

GERMANY
Bundesforschungsanstalt für Forst und Holzwirtschaft (B.F.H.)
Institut für Forstgenetik und Forstpflanzenzüchtung
Sieker Landstrasse 2
D-22927 Grosshansdorf
Tel:  +49 4102 696 107
Fax: +49 4102 696 200
Email: koenig@holz.uni-hamburg.de

 

Bundesforschungsanstalt
f. Forst-u. Holzwirtschaft
Institut für Forstgenetik
Siekerlandstrasse 2
D-22927 GROSSHANSDORF
Tel:  +49 4102 6960
Fax: +49 4102 696200
Email: muhs@holz.uni-hamburg.de
Website:  www.bfafh.de

 

HUNGARY
National Institute for Agricultural Quality Control
Division of Horticulture and Forestry
Keleti Károly u.24
H -1024 BUDAPEST
Tel:  +36 1 336 9113
Fax: +36 1 336 9094
Email: bachi@ommi.hu 
Website: www.ommi.hu

 

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Department of Forestry
H-1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 11
Post: 1860 BUDAPEST 55-POB. 1
Tel:  +36 1 301 44 28
Fax: +36 1 301 46 78
Email: sandore@posta.fvm.hu

 

IRELAND
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture and Food
Agriculture House (3W)
Kildare Street
IRL-DUBLIN 2
Tel:  +353 1 607 29 32
Fax: +353 1 607 25 45
Email: gerard.cahalane@agriculture.gov.ie

 

ITALY
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali
Direzione Generale delle Risorse
Forestali, Montane ed Idriche - Divisione V
Via Carducci, 5
00187 ROMA
Tel:  +39 6 46 65 70 52
Fax: +39 6 48 24 231
Emails: l.corbetta@corpoforestale.it
            servizio6@corpoforestale.it
Website: www.corpoforestale.it

 

MADAGASCAR
Silo National des Graines Forestières (SNGF)
B.P. 5091
101 ANTANANARIVO
Tel:  +261 20 22 402 85/412 30
Fax: +261 20 22 412 41
Email: silonagf@bow.dts.mg

 

NETHERLANDS
Naktuinbouw
Sotaweg 22
Postbus 40
NL-2370 AA ROELOFARENDSVEEN
Tel:  +31 71 332 62 62
Fax: +31 71 332 63 63
Email: j.v.ruiten@naktuinbouw.nl

 

Centre for Genetic Resources Netherlands (CGN)
C/o Alterra
Post Box 47
NL-6700 AA WAGENINGEN
Tel:  +31 317 477 841
Fax: +31 317 424 988
Email: sven.devries@wur.nl
Website: www.cgn.wur.nl

 

NORWAY
Norwegian Forest Research Institute
Høgskoleveien 12
N-1432 AAS
Tel:  +47 64 94 90 67/90 00
Fax: +47 64 94 29 80
Email: tore.skroppa@skogforsk.no
Website: www.skogforsk.no

Norwegian Forest Seed Station
P.O. Box 118
N-2301 HAMAR

 

PORTUGAL
Ministerio do Agricultura, do Desenvolvimento Rural e das Pescas
Direcção Geral dos Recursos Florestais (DGF)
Avenida Joao Crisostomo, 26-28
P-1069-040 LISBOA
Tel:  +351 21 314 63 04
Fax: +351 21 312 49 98
Email: anabela.teixeira@dgrf.min-agricultura.pt

 

ROMANIA
Institut de recherches et aménagement forestier (I.C.A.S.)
Dépt. de génétique et amélioration des arbres
Soseana Stefanesti 128, sector 2, Oficine 11
RO-72904 BUCURESTI
Email: genetica@icas.ro

 

RWANDA
Centrale des graines forestières (CGF)
B.P. 617
BUTARE
Tel: +250 530 644 (office)
      +250 085 333 48 (mobile)
Emails: mutamini@yahoo.fr
            gapusirj@yahoo.fr

 

Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Elevage et des Forêts (MINAGRI)
B.P. 621
KIGALI
Tel: +250 085 30036 (mobile)

 

SERBIA
Group for Forest Reproductive Material and Genetic Resources
Directorate for Forest
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
Ministry of AFW - Directorate for Forest
Omladinskih brigada 1
Novi Beograd
Tel: +381.11.314.83.90
Fax: +381.11.311.76.11
Email: ljsovilj@ptt.rs

 

SLOVAKIA
Forest Division
Ministry of Agriculture
Dobrovicova, 12
SK-81266 BRATISLAVA
Tel:  +421 2 592 66 529
Fax: +421 2 592 66 752

 

Forest Research Institute
Department of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding
T.G.Masaryka str. 22
SK-960 92 Zvolen
Tel: +421 45 53 14 327
Fax:+421 45 53 21 883
Email: longauer @fris.sk
Website: www.fris.sk

 

SPAIN
Sección de Forestales
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (M.A.P.A.)
Subdirección General de Senillas y plantas de vivero
José Abascal, 4
E-28005 MADRID
Tel:  +34.1.91.347.69.26
Fax: +34.1.91.347.82.48

 

Jefe Sección Comercialización de Material Genético
Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza
Ministerio del Medio Ambiente
Gran Vía de San Francisco No. 4
E-28005 MADRID
Tel: +34.91.596.46.38
Email: siglesias@mma.es

 

SWEDEN
National Board of Forestry
Forest Management Department
S-551 83 JÖNKÖPING
Tel:  +46 36 15 57 54
Fax: +46 36 16 61 70
Email: jorgen.ringagard@svo.se
Website: www.svo.se 

 

SWITZERLAND
Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK)
Forest Division
Federal Plant Protection Service
Zürcherstraße 111
CH-8903 BIRMENSDORF
Tel:  +41 44 739 23 00
Fax: +41 44 739 22 15
Email: ernst.fuerst@bafu.admin.ch
Website: www.umwelt-schweiz.ch/wald

 

TURKEY
National Designated Authority of Turkey
Ministry of Environment and Forestry
General Directorate of Forestation and Erosion Control
Bestepe. 06560
Ankara
Turkey
Tel: +90.312.207.5750
Fax: +90.312.207.5756
E-mail: agm@cob.gov.tr

 

UNITED STATES
USA United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
Cooperative Forestry
National Seed Laboratory
5675 Riggins Mill Road
Dry Branch, Georgia 31020

Tel: 478-751-3551
Tel: 765-583-3502
Fax: 478-751-4135
Email: rkarrfalt@fs.fed.us
Website: http://www.nsl.fs.fed.us
 
OFFICIAL STATE CERTIFICATION AUTHORITIES
(Authorized to issue OECD certificates through cooperative agreement with USDA Forest Service)
Washington State Crop Improvement Association, Inc.
1610 NE Eastgate Blvd, Suite 610
Pullman, Washington 99163

Tel: 509-335-8250
Tel: 509-454-4395
Email: jerobison@wsu.edu
Website: http://washingtoncrop.com