ISTA President's Strategic Presentation (941 KB) - International ...
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Budapest 2004
• Presented in Angers, France 2001<br />
• The need for a change was clearly<br />
demonstrated<br />
• Stakeholders: governments as well<br />
as the seed industry<br />
• Governments hand over more<br />
responsibilities to the private sector<br />
• Decreasing financial support of<br />
governments for research
• Adoption of the strategic document<br />
• Installation of annual meetings<br />
• Discussion on voting rights<br />
• Evaluation of the experiment on<br />
accreditation of company laboratories<br />
• Governance, installation of a<br />
Secretary General<br />
• Generic method validation standard<br />
• More workshops
• Bolivia 2002 and Zurich 2003<br />
• A speed up of the decision<br />
making process<br />
• Enhancement of the activities<br />
of Technical Committees<br />
• Better communication
• Ideas and draft proposals were<br />
discussed in Santa Cruz<br />
(Bolivia) 2002 and Zurich 2003<br />
• For discussion and decision in<br />
Budapest 2004
• For discussion and decision in<br />
Budapest 2004
• Decided in Angers<br />
• Proper definition of the responsibilities<br />
of the Executive Committee on one side<br />
and the Secretary General on the other<br />
side<br />
• Final responsibility remains up to the<br />
Ordinary Meeting
• Generic method validation<br />
standard is about to be<br />
finalised<br />
• Method validation has been<br />
successfully introduced
• Most Technical Committees<br />
successfully organised one or more<br />
workshops<br />
• 1998 – 2001: 4 workshops<br />
• 2001 – 2004: 11 workshops<br />
• Fruitful cooperation with FAO,<br />
especially in the field of GMO<br />
workshops
• <strong>International</strong>ly accepted and implemented<br />
rules for seed testing and handbooks<br />
• <strong>International</strong> seed lot certificates<br />
• Accreditation program, including proficiency<br />
tests for uniform application of the methods<br />
• <strong>International</strong> platform for seed science and<br />
cooperation<br />
• Workshops and publications, such as SST,<br />
Seed Testing <strong>International</strong> and Website
• <strong>International</strong>ly accepted rules for seed<br />
testing and handbooks<br />
• Availability of accepted and validated<br />
methods<br />
• Accreditation and validation program<br />
• <strong>ISTA</strong> facilitates the cooperation between<br />
scientist, lab managers and analysts
• Continue the process of changes, as<br />
agreed in Angers<br />
• Changes are a part of an ongoing<br />
process<br />
• Progress depends on the decisions to<br />
be taken<br />
• Enhancement of the value of being an<br />
<strong>ISTA</strong> member
• Discount on <strong>ISTA</strong> Publications (unchanged)<br />
• Difference in registration between member<br />
and non-member fees (for meetings,<br />
symposiums, workshops)<br />
Business concept will be prepared
• Non-members may participate in the<br />
<strong>ISTA</strong> Proficiency Test Programme for<br />
an annual fee of CHF 3000.-<br />
• Participation is free for <strong>ISTA</strong> Members<br />
(unchanged)<br />
Introduction 2005
Goal:<br />
why are laboratories and persons not<br />
member of <strong>ISTA</strong><br />
Can categories be changed in order<br />
to get more members<br />
B.C. 2005, starting 2006
The Association wants to support the work<br />
of the Technical Committee Chairs by<br />
supplying some financial support for<br />
• attending Annual Meetings and<br />
Congresses<br />
• representation of <strong>ISTA</strong> at other meetings<br />
B.C. 2005, starting 2006
• The financial administration has been<br />
improved<br />
• More insight in costs and benefits of<br />
the various activities<br />
• The impacts on the presented B.C.’s<br />
must be evaluated<br />
• A multi-annual budget will be<br />
presented to the Ordinary Meeting in<br />
2005
• Appreciation for the efforts of<br />
the Technical Committees<br />
• The work of the Technical<br />
Committees remain the core<br />
business of the Association
• Membership categories<br />
• Proxy voting<br />
• Harmonisation<br />
• Working Group on tropical species<br />
• Implementation of a GMO Chapter<br />
• Validation<br />
• Evaluation of the Accreditation Program<br />
• Training and accreditation of analysts