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CPVO releases new version of Variety Finder

The CPVO has released an improved version of its Variety Finder database on 10 December 2020. The Variety Finder database, managed and kept up to date by the CPVO, contains information from 147 registers from 70 countries with a general search tool. It also includes a similarity search tool to test the suitability of denominations.

The new CPVO Variety Finder features key improvements, both in terms of usability, with a more user-friendly and intuitive design, and in terms of functionalities, with new searching functions and the possibility to use our application programing

10 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

08 December 2020
Press Release

The Community Plant Variety Office launches « CPVO Headlines », the new digital newsletter of the CPVO

On 1 December 2020, the CPVO launched "CPVO Headlines", the new digital newsletter of the Community Plant Variety Office.

"We realised that the way readers look for news and digest information has changed significantly in the past few years. With this in mind, we decided to modernise the format of CPVO’s newsletter and to offer our subscribers a monthly update which is more digestible, newsworthy and engaging", said Martin Ekvad, President of the CPVO.

The newsletter can also be read online: "CPVO Headlines #1: December 2020", and a printable PDF

01 December 2020
Official Announcement

Vacancy notice for the role of President of CPVO

We would like to inform our stakeholders that the vacancy notice for the role of President of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (Ref: CA 379, 10 November 2020).

The post is available from 1 September 2021 for an initial mandate of 5 years, with a possible extension for a maximum period of 5 years according to the Regulation establishing the Office as applicable at the time of appointment. The place of employment is Angers, (France), where the CPVO is based.

The application process and

10 November 2020
New CPVO search tool for applicants

The CPVO has launched a new online search tool, merging the information formely available in the so-called S2 publication and S3 webpage.

The new search tool enables users to consult all relevant information concerning the closing dates for applications and the submission requirements for plant material per species and according to the examination offices which are entrusted to carry out the DUS technical examination on behalf of the CPVO.

For species without an entrusted examination office in the EU, the database contains information about cooperating authorities in

19 October 2020
Official Announcement

Official Publication 5.2020

The official Gazette of the CPVO has been published and is available for free in electronic format only (PDF).

You may download this gazette from the Gazette page.

From 15/10/2020 the information related to closing dates and submission requirements for plant material will be updated daily on the CPVO website. Such data may be found under "Technical examinations/Plant material submission to Entrusted Examination Offices S2/S3

15 October 2020
New publication: CPVO case-law Volume II 2015 -2020

The CPVO case-law 2015-2020 Volume II offers a summary of the latest decisions and judgments of CPVO's Board of Appeal, of the General Court and of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Voume I is also available online and offers a summary of case-laws from 1995

09 October 2020
Communication

CPVO Administrative Council elects new Chair and Deputy Chair for the period 2020 – 2023

On 30 September 2020, the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office held its first entirely virtual meeting since the establishment of the CPVO in 1995.

During the meeting, the members of the Administrative Council elected their new Chair and Deputy Chair for the period 2020 - 2023. The new Chair is Mr. Marien Valstar from The Netherlands, who was previously Deputy Chair, and the new Deputy Chair is Dr. José Antonio Sobrino Maté, from Spain. Both assignments took effect on 5 October 2020.

"The election of Marien Valstar as Chair of the CPVO

09 October 2020
Public consultation: IP rights outside the European Union

In the framework of the European Union’s Strategy for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Third Countries, the European Commission (DG Trade) is launching a public consultation in order to gather information on the state of intellectual property protection and enforcement in third countries.

The main objective of this public consultation is to identify third countries in which the state of IPR protection and enforcement gives rise to the highest level of concern and to update the list of the so called "priority countries". The public consultation will be one

08 October 2020
COVID-19

CPVO’s exceptional measures to extend time limits for payments come to an end

On 27 April 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and with the aim to support plant breeders facing unforeseen financial difficulties, the President of the CPVO took the exceptional decision to extend deadlines for payment of the annual fee (Article 9 fees regulation) and the payment of examinations fees (Article 8 fees regulation).

We would like to kindly remind all concerned stakeholders and plant breeders that the measures laid out in the decision of 27 April have come to an end on Monday 21 September 2020. As a result, we would like to confirm to all applicants and

21 September 2020
Technical Announcement

The cascade of protection in relation to parent lines and hybrids and the relevance of the breeders’ exemption

The analysis outlined on this page represents the view of the CPVO in relation to the scope of protection extended from the parental lines to the hybrids and the potential use of such hybrid for the breeding of other varieties in relation to the breeders’ exemption.

The following question has been analysed by the CPVO: Can holder 1 of varieties A and B prevent breeder 2 from the repeated use of a single hybrid H in the breeding of a new 3 -way hybrid variety Z?

Production scheme of single hybrid and 3-way hybrid

31 August 2020
Technical Announcement

Announcement n◦ 4/2020 of the Community Plant Variety Office. Publication of the S2 gazette

The Office hereby informs you that the information related to closing dates and submission requirements for plant material will, as from 15/10/2020, be updated daily on the CPVO website. Such data may be found under "Technical Examination / Plant material submission to Entrusted Examination Offices S2/S3 Publication" and will be published annually (15/02) in a

15 August 2020