1995 During the ISTA Congress held in Copenhagen, ISTA Membership
was opened to private laboratories and private seed companies
1996 To ensure harmonised seed testing worldwide, ISTA initiated
the Quality Assurance Programme to accredit seed testing laboratories.
The first ISTA Member Laboratory was audited under the new
set-up in this year
2004 During the ISTA Congress held in Budapest, it was agreed to
consider accreditation as a purely technical task, and the responsibility
to give authorisation to issue ISTA International Seed Analysis
Certificates was given to the ISTA Executive Committee