The European Nurserystock Association launched the revised and completed European minimum quality standards for nurserystock.

The European Nursery Stock Association (ENA) had their ENA Committee Meeting in connection with the IPM-show in Essen 29th January 2010. ENA presented their reviewed and completed ENA Quality Standards. For the past ten years ENA kept on leading the charge to have uniform quality standards accepted and implemented across the European nurserystock sector. These standards are a synthesis of work, carried out in 1990, early 1996 and 2009. These ENA Quality Standards are now the accepted minimum plant standards used between ENA-member states. They are obviously, constantly evolving and therefore likely to be reviewed and completed.

ENA is convinced that one of the surest ways to develop the nursery market in Europe is to make trading easier within the EU. ENA decided to take on the task of establishing simple, universally acknowledged European standards. The idea behind all this is to define a common language for a standard, fair, honest, average quality. It will be up to individual businesses to apply their own more rigorous standards, using these as a basis, should they wish to do so.

To get more visibility, ENA has created a new logo and website (www.enaplants.eu). Within this website it is possible to download easily the ENA Quality Standards!