ABSTRACT
The first law in Italy to regulate marketing of seed was Royal Decree of 1st July 1926, n. 1361 concerning seed fraud.1 This decree established some conditions for seed marketing, for examples, that seeds must be labelled indicating a common name, minimum levels of purity (over 95 percent) and germinability (at least 85 percent). It also required the inclusion of information about the origin of the variety.
