Breeders are facing difficulties when enforcing their Community and national plant variety rights (PVRs). An important reason for this phenomenon is the insufficient knowledge of the applicable legislation amongst breeders, lawyers, prosecutors and judges.
For this reason, the Community Plant Variety Office, in close co-operation with the breeders’ organizations, decided to organize seminars on the enforcement of Plant Variety Rights in Brussels (2005), Warsaw (2006), Madrid (2007), Romania and Bulgaria (2008), Athens (2010), Hamburg (2011) and Rome (2013).
As a follow-up,...
