The Certified Seed Production Unit Registration Certificate is MAGA procedure 102 in the government procedures catalog (service 2832). It comes after the seed quality laboratory tests, because its technical requirement is the result of that analysis.

Summary: $6.50 per license, paid at Banrural. 48 hours. Prerequisite: the laboratory quality analysis result for the seed you want certification labels for.

Requirements

According to the government procedures catalog (service 2832):

  • Payment receipt for the license value, issued by Banrural ($6.50)
  • Laboratory seed quality analysis result for the seed that needs certification labels

Step by step

  1. Download, fill in and print the application at visar.maga.gob.gt and attach the supporting documents for the requirements.
  2. Pay the license value at Banrural.
  3. File the application with the supporting documents at the User Service Office (OSU).
  4. Pick up the authorization at the OSU window after you are notified.

Cost and time

ItemDetail
License fee$6.50 (service 2832)
Time48 hours
Prior laboratory tests$3.75, 15 days (service 2830)

For 5 lots, analysis plus license add up to $51.25 ($3.75×5 + $6.50×5), if each lot gets its own analysis and its own license.

The government procedures catalog cites as legal basis:

  • Acuerdo Gubernativo, Normas Reglamentarias para la Producción, Certificación y Comercialización de Semillas Agrícolas y Forestales (12 May 1961)
  • Reglamento de Condiciones y Requisitos Básicos para los Semilleristas (19 January 1962)
  • Acuerdo Ministerial 137-2007 (fees)
  • Resolution No. 259-2010 (COMIECO-LIX), of 13 December 2010
  • Central American Technical Regulation RTCA 65.05.53:10, Agricultural Inputs, Requirements for the Production and Marketing of Certified Seed of Basic Grains and Soybean
  • Resolution No. 119-2004 (COMIECO)