2000: Vigour and GMO chapters added to the ISTA Rules.
2002: First annual ISTA Meeting, Bolivia.
2002: Seed vigour testing chapter added to the ISTA Rules
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.