Article L623-24-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code
By way of derogation from Article L. 623-4, for the species listed in Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights and for other species that may be listed by decree, farmers have the right to use on their own holdings, without the breeder’s authorisation, for the purposes of reproduction or multiplication, the product of the harvest that they have obtained by planting a…