Regulatory part

The application for a plant variety certificate shall be filed at the headquarters of the national plant variety authority. The application may also be filed by sending it to the national plant variety authority either by registered post with a request for acknowledgement of receipt or by a message using any teletransmission method, in accordance with the procedures laid down by the head of the national plant variety authority to…

The filing may be made by the applicant or by a representative whose domicile, registered office or place of business is in a Member State of the European Union.

Natural or legal persons who do not have their domicile, registered office or place of business in a Member State of the European Union and who, pursuant to Article L. 623-6, apply for plant variety certificates, must, within two months of receipt of the notification sent to them to this effect, appoint a representative whose domicile, registered office or establishment is in a Member State of the European Union. Unless…

The application for a plant variety certificate must include in particular: – a description of the manner in which the variety was obtained or discovered; – a full description of the variety with mention of the characteristics which, in the applicant’s opinion, enable it to be distinguished from varieties already known. For varieties whose commercial production requires the repeated use of another variety, the characteristics of that other variety must…

The applicant must attach to the application for a plant variety certificate: 1° A declaration stating: -that the variety for which protection is sought constitutes to his knowledge a new variety within the meaning of Article L. 623-1; -that it has not been offered for sale or marketed in France or in the territory of the European Economic Area with the agreement of the breeder or his successor(s) for more…

Subject to the provisions of article R. 623-7, in order to be registered, the denomination must enable the variety to be identified from any other variety and avoid any risk of confusion with any other variety of the same botanical species or of a closely related species, in France or in States party to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. It must not be likely…