At Euroseeds 2023, held this year in St Julian’s, Malta, Bert Scholte, Head of the Department Variety Testing, at Naktuinbouw NL in The Netherlands, spoke with Seed World Europe Editorial Director Marcel Bruins. They spoke about the impact the proposed EU seed law will have on vegetable variety testing, how he defines sustainability in vegetable variety testing, and how it will be possible to achieve a higher level of sustainability in variety testing, without losing the high quality of variety testing that the seed sector is used to.