Conferences and Events

The CPVO will present Community plant breeders' rights together with the GEVES for technical examinations. Visit us at Grand Palais stand E134 .

CPVO, OEVV and INIA jointly organised a Vegetable Variety Open Day at the INIA facilities in Valencia (Spain) on Tuesday 21 October 2014 .

This open day was aimed at breeders, their representatives, examination offices, and users of protected vegetable varieties in the European Union. It allowed an exchange of views on essential aspects to vegetable DUS testing and in particular on the following issues:

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,...

The CPVO will present Community plant breeders’ rights together with the Bundessortenamt (BSA) for technical examination ( Hall 2.0 Stand 2B23 ).