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Given the exceptional circumstances and the heavy disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis across the European Union, the President of the CPVO took the decision to extend deadlines that fall in the period 17 March – 3 May included, until 4 May 2020 for parties to proceedings before the CPVO and the Board of Appeal. The extension applies to all deadlines except for the submission of material for technical examinations and the payment of examination fees. Details of this decision are available on a dedicated webpage.

The CPVO has set up a COVID-19 Business Continuity Team (BCT),

The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2020.

This is an excellent opportunity to turn the spotlight on some of the CPVO people who work on a daily basis to serve our stakeholders and make the Community Plant Variety Rights system work in the most professional and efficient way possible.

The CPVO employs circa 50 people, of different background and expertise, and is organised in various units and sectors. The CPVO organisation chart provides a clear view on how we are structured.

The CPVO team is gender-balanced and

The official Gazette of the CPVO 1.2020, the S2 Gazette and the annex to the Annual Report 2019 have been published and are available for free in electronic format only (PDF).

You may download both gazettes from the Gazette page, the annex to the Annual Report from the Annual Reports page.

A search tool is available to identify these modifications on the web site of the Office: S2

The European Commission published on 9 January 2020 its new report on protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in third countries.

The report puts intellectual property related to plant varieties in the spotlight. Plant breeding can play an important role in increasing productivity and quality in agriculture, whilst minimising the pressure on the environment. The EU wants to encourage investment and research in this area, including in the development of new crops resistant to drought, flood, heat and salinity to better respond to the negative

The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) & the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) have agreed on a Service Level Agreement which will pave the way for enhanced collaboration between the two EU Agencies, notably on procurement matters.

ERA's Executive Director, Josef Doppelbauer, & CPVO's President, Martin Ekvad, signed the Service Level Agreement on 7 January 2020 at the CPVO premises in Angers,

The CPVO will be present at IPM Essen, Germany, from 28 to 31 January 2020 where we will hold a joint booth together with the Bundessortenamt (BSA), the French Variety and Seed Study and Control Group (GEVES) and the Netherlands Inspection Service for Horticulture (Naktuinbouw).

Visitors looking for information on how to obtain a plant variety right valid on the whole territory of the European Union and how to prepare for technical examination are welcome to visit our booth and ask their questions to our experts (Hall 2.0 Stand