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Administrative Arrangement on technical cooperation DCST MOA, CHINA – CPVO

The Development Centre of Science and Technology (DCST), Ministry of Agriculture, People’s Republic of China, and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) have decided on 15 November 2017 to initiate technical cooperation in the area of plant variety rights. The DCST is the Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture responsible for registering plant variety rights for agricultural and vegetable crops and for a range of fruit and ornamental species in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The CPVO is the...

Brussels, Angers, October 2017

Following the notice of 7 July 2017, an update is hereby presented about the "New Species Procedure" organised by CPVO. The purpose of that procedure was to ensure that, as from 30 March 2019 at the latest, an entrustment of Examination Offices in the Union takes place for 324 botanical taxa for which an actual application for a Community Plant Variety Right has been received by the CPVO and which currently can only be tested in Examination Offices in the United Kingdom.

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Technical examinations which are initiated or are to be approved by the Community Plant Variety Office must be performed in accordance with the test guidelines which have been adopted by the Administrative Council. Technical examinations started prior to the decision are not affected unless otherwise announced. The plant species concerned as well as the date of the decision are accordingly published in the Official Gazette of the Office. The technical protocol can be consulted through the website of the Office, or upon request can be transmitted by the Office. Technical questionnaires for...

Many clients reported they receive an increasing amount of unsolicited mail from a “so called” staff member of CPVO usurping her/his identity, requesting payment for invoices.

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TF50 (2017) 11 – Commission to EU 27

Subject : Position paper transmitted to EU27 on Intellectual property rights (including geographical indications)

Origin : European Commission, Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU

Objective : For discussion at the Council Working party (Art. 50) of 7 September 2017

Remarks : The attached position paper on Intellectual property rights (including geographical indications) contains the main principles of the EU position in this regard, to be...