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Official Announcement

Official Gazette 1.2023 and annex to the Annual Report 2022

The official Gazette of the CPVO 1.2023, the S2 Gazette 2023 and the annex to the Annual Report 2022 have been published and are available for free in electronic format only (PDF).

You may download both gazettes from the Gazette page, the annex to the Annual Report from the Annual Reports page.

A search tool is available to identify these modifications on the web site of the Office: S2

15 February 2023
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IP Rights for Plants: Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights regarding plant-related innovation

The report "Intellectual Property Rights for Plants - Analysis of IP Rights regarding plant-related innovation: Plant variety Rights & Patents - How it works" has been prepared by Mr. Martin Ekvad on behalf of Växtnoden, which is a project of the Royal Swedish Academy of Foresty and Agriculture.

Martin Ekvad was President of the CPVO for 10 years (2011-2022). Prior to that he was the Head of the legal service of the CPVO. He has also worked as a lawyer at the law firm Linklaters in Brussels and Magnusson Whalin Law Firm in Stockholm.

The main purpose of

18 January 2023
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Official Announcement

Announcement n° 1/2025 of the Community Plant Variety Office. Decision of the President on specific fees" - Corrigendum

17 February 2025
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Official Announcement

CPVO makes it easier to file legal proceedings

The CPVO launches a new online tool called "e-Proceedings".

Until today, filing legal proceedings with the CPVO was only possible by email or by regular post. As of now, the new "e-Proceedings" feature within the CPVO User Area makes this a lot easier, while at the same time ensuring its legal reliability.

With "e-Proceedings" users will be able to file, in an intuitive way, an Objection, a Nullity petition, a Cancellation request, a Restitutio in Integrum request or an Appeal regarding one or more Community Plant Variety Rights (CPVRs). For each CPVR,

08 December 2022
CPVO launches its new Communication Centre to ease exchange of documents with its users

With the aim to ease communications with its users, the CPVO launched today its new Communication Centre online platform ("e-Comm") offering a more intuitive layout which allows for an enhanced monitoring of all new messages and documents related to users’ files.

Dealing with procedures requiring exchange of messages and documents can be quite demanding for all parties involved, and it needs to be supported by an effective communication platform. Until today, sending a message about your CPVRs to the CPVO was only possible by submitting a document in the section

09 December 2022
Official Announcement

Call for expression of interest: Chairperson of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO

The Community Plant Variety Office is looking for the Chairperson of the Board of Appeal of the Office.

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The Community Plant Variety Office (hereinafter referred to as ‘the CPVO’ or ‘the Office’) is an independent EU Agency, established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights, which also provides for the establishment of one or more Boards of Appeal within the Office.

A Board of Appeal is established by the Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2009 and is responsible for deciding

29 August 2022