Disclaimer

The contents of these pages are provided for information only. No responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for any errors, omissions, or misleading statements on these pages or any site to which these pages connect, including any feature or aspect of such site or pages, whether provided by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or other Departments of Her Majesty’s Government or by any organisation, company or individual. - No mention of any organisation, company or individual, whether on these pages or other sites to which these pages are linked shall imply any approval or warranty as to the standing and capability of any such organisations, company or individual on the part of the Department.

Further details on policy issues regarding use of GRFA and access and benefit sharing are described in the following 'policy' sections.

• EU and Domestic Policy
• International Policy

You can find a legal summary in relation to accessing genetic materials at this page: http://www.defra.gov.uk/Science/GeneticResources/Legal/Default.asp

Information from the inventories, and from the result of searches of third party web sites are covered by various legal, copyright statements and disclaimers as follows:

UK National Plant Inventory
http://eurisco.ecpgr.org/_1About/9Legal/index.php

National Fruit Collections
http://www.nfc.u-net.com/Copyright.htm

Crop Wild Relative Information System
http://www.pgrforum.org/cwris_legal.htm

NBN Gateway
http://www.searchnbn.net/help/popups/generalTerms.htm

RHS Plant Finder
http://www.rhs.org.uk/legal.asp

CABI BioScience (Microbial GRFA)
http://www.cabi-bioscience.org/termsandconditions.asp