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CPVO Headlines #3 February 2021

Dear readers,

After a year since the outbreak, COVID-19 is still present and a reality around us. The European Commission and Member States are working hard to secure timely vaccinations for all, but it will still take time before we can go back to a life that at least resembles the life we were used to one year ago.

Although most of CPVO staff are teleworking and all internal and external meetings remain “virtual”, as you can see in the calendar section of this newsletter, the EU plant variety protection system is doing well. The statistics published below bear witness to...

23 February 2021
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CPVO headlines 23 February 2021
Brexit

EU Plant Variety Rights in the United Kingdom

According to the withdrawal agreement of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU), holders of a Community Plant Variety right which has been granted before the end of the transition period, 31 December 2020, have become holders of a plant variety right in the UK under UK law. The full list of plant varieties with EU registered rights that have been granted a corresponding UK right can be found on the UK Government website .

The plant variety rights granted by the CPVO as from 1 January 2021 do not cover the territory of the UK, including Northern Ireland. In order to...

19 February 2021
COVID-19

Change in invoicing take-over fees as of 1 March 2021

Presently the take-over fees must be paid by applicants up-front when requesting the CPVO to take over a report from an entrusted examination office. This will now change and payment for the take-over fees should be made when the CPVO receives the final report from the examination office concerned, be it positive or negative.

By decision of the President of the CPVO from 8 February 2021, where the CPVO makes use of a report on the result of a technical examination of a variety carried out previously for official purposes in a EU Member State by an entrusted examination office, the...

11 February 2021
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Decision: Change in invoicing take-over fees as of 1 March 2021

CPVO Headlines #2 January 2021

Happy New Year!

Dear readers,

I hope you have had a relaxing break over the Christmas period, and I take the opportunity of this newsletter to wish you and your dear ones a happy, healthy and productive 2021!

2020 was a turmoiled year for us all: in Europe and across the world, people’s lives and business activities were disrupted by the COVID pandemic. Some of us even fell sick or lost relatives or friends. I would like to express my deepest sympathy to everyone who suffered directly from the situation and I wish to share a positive message for the year we’ve just...

14 January 2021
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CPVO Programming Document 2021-2023

Interview radio: Les 25 ans de l'OCVV

Dans cet entretien radio diffusé le 15 décembre 2020 sur Radio G! 101.5fm à Angers, Lionel Sola, responsable communication, et Laetitia Denécheau, experte en espèces ornementales, expliquent le rôle et les activités de l'Office Communautaire des Variétés Végétales (CPVO - OCVV) qui célébrait son 25ème anniversaire en 2020.

Ecouter l'entretien sur Youtube .

L'émission "l'Europe dans le micro" est diffusée deux fois par mois et enregistrée en partenariat avec La Maison de l'Europe 49 Angers Maine-et-Loire. Le podcast de l'émission est disponible sur http://www.radio...

29 December 2020

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

A Call for expression of interest in the appointment as Alternate Chairperson of the Board of Appeal of the Community Plant Variety Office was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, CA424, on 8 December 2020, where the notice is available in all EU languages and can be downloaded in PDF: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2020:424A:TOC

The closing date for registration is 19 January 2021, 12:00 noon CET.

CONTEXT

Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights establishes the...

08 December 2020

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