About service

The State Seed and Grain Service under the Ministry of Agriculture (thereinafter – Service) is a government institution that was established in the middle of the year 2000 after reorganizing the State Seed Inspection and the State Grain Inspection. The Service took over the functions of the aforementioned inspections and within its scope implements State policy in the fields of quality improvement of seed, crop and their products and feedingstuffs.

The main tasks of the Service are as follows:

to ensure within its scope implementation of laws and other seed, crop and crop products and feedingstuffs related legal acts;

to implement market control to make all undertakings supplying propagating material to the state market to follow requirements established by legal acts;

to implement state quality control of seed crops, horticultural plants and propagating material;

to implement policy of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the Ministry of Agriculture when procuring crop to the interventional fund;

to ensure state quality control of crop kept in the interventional fund and state reserve;

to implement within its scope EU strategy in the fields of quality improvement of seed, crop and crop products;

to inoculate the system of seed quality control in Lithuania according to the requirements of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The Service consists of 6 divisions and two subdivisions (Seed and Grain Quality Control) that are located in Vilnius and four territorial subdivisions (Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys and Šiauliai). The Service staff numbers 84.