Variety Registration

The CFIA's Variety Registration Office (VRO) registers varieties of most agricultural crops in Canada. Variety registration is critical to the function of the seed certification system.

What information is available?

• Procedures for the registration of crop varieties
  • Crop specific recommending committees
• Registered varieties and notifications 
  • List of varieties which are registered in Canada
  • List of varieties with novel traits and their progeny which are registered in Canada
• Seed program modernization
• Use of variety names, import and sale of unregistered varieties
• Variety cancellation
  • National wheat variety de-registration protocol adopted