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The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is responsible for the management of the Community Plant Variety Rights System. This system provides protection with an intellectual property right for new plant varieties on European Community level. The system, based on the 1991 act of the UPOV Convention, became operational in 1995 and has seen a steady growth of the number of applications.

In managing the system, the CPVO fulfils the mandate of Council Regulation (EC) N°2100/94 of 27 July 1994. The core task of the CPVO is processing of and