The benefit of the right of priority may only be granted if:
1. Within a period of three months from the filing date of the application, the applicant submits to the person in charge of the missions under the national plant variety authority a copy of the documents constituting the previous filing with any other member of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, certified as true by the administration which will have received it accompanied by a translation;
2. Within two years of the expiry of the priority period, he shall provide the additional documents and, where applicable, the propagating or vegetative propagating material required for the preliminary examination.
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