Delegates of the Minister of Defence, specially authorised for this purpose and whose names and capacities have been brought to the attention of the Minister responsible for agriculture by the Minister of Defence, take cognisance, on the premises of the national plant variety authority, of applications for plant variety certificates filed.
These are presented, within a period of fifteen days from the date of their receipt, by the head of the national plant variety authority.
When the request is made by the delegates of the Minister of Defence, the person in charge of the tasks falling under the national plant variety authority must, if he has not already done so, invite the breeder or his successor in title to provide, as soon as possible and compatible with the method of reproduction or vegetative propagation of the variety, the material referred to in 3° of Article R. 623-25 and communicate it as soon as it is received to the delegates of the Minister of Defence.