RESOLUTION OIV-VITI 607-2018

OIV RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT THE USE OF ALTERNATIVES TO SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS FOR DORMANCY BREAKING AGENTS FOR TABLE GRAPE PRODUCTION

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

At the proposal of Commission I « Viticulture » and the Sub-commission “Table grapes, raisins and unfermented vine products”,

IN VIEW of article 2, paragraph 2 b f) of the Agreement of 3 April 2001, establishing the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, and under the axe 1 of the OIV Strategic Plan 2015-2019, which foresees to ” Promote a sustainable vitiviniculture”,

CONSIDERING the economic importance of the consumption of grape and its unfermented products that represents almost half of the world total grape production,

CONSIDERING the progress achieved by the works developed within the « Table grapes, raisins and unfermented vine products » sub commission, which have been lately concentrated around the alternatives to various inputs of the table grape production, either in the vineyard, or at the post-harvest level,

CONSIDERING the OIV expertise’s document “Alternatives for dormancy breaking and other production agents for Table Grapes” published in 2018 and continuously updated.

CONSIDERING Resolution OIV-VITI 422-2011 on SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE TABLE AND DRIED GRAPE SECTOR, and especially the parts concerning to give specific information on the alternatives for the inputs of the production of table grapes and dried grapes

CONSIDERING the results of the large number of recently published scientific works focusing on the alternatives to chemicals and other artificially break dormancy agents

DECIDES:

• To encourage the research and study the uses of vegetal extracts, sustainable and specific fertilizers, hormones, agronomic practices and chemical products as alternatives to synthetic products for dormancy breaking agents.