Press Release
New President of the Community Plant Variety Office takes up office
On 01 February 2022, Francesco Mattina took up his duties as President of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), the European Union (EU) agency responsible for granting plant variety rights, after being appointed to this role by the Council of the European Union on 20 December 2021.
Francesco Mattina, a 51-year-old Italian national specialised in EU law and in Intellectual Property law, joined the CPVO in 2013 after gaining international experience in private law firms as a partner and in the EU public sector as a senior legal advisor in industrial property at the EU Agency