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The Administrative Council of the CPVO has adopted the following revised or new technical protocols and associated technical questionnaires in the agricultural and vegetable sectors:

You are invited to download the latest versions from the Technical Protocols pages or the Technical Questionnaires

A new feature is available in the Client Extranet: it is now possible to download the complete varietal description as well as the final grant decision for varieties granted since

On 13 September 2010 the General Court annulled a decision of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO and thereby concurred with the Office's view that the Office has discretion to allow a second sample of plant material in the application procedure; Case T-135/08.

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The CPVO is launching a call for tenders for a Framework contract for the extraction and storage of DNA samples of rose varieties.

Contract notice published in the EU Official Journal N°2010/S 179-272283 of 15/09/2010.

See more details in the Call for tenders

The Administrative Council of the CPVO has adopted rules of procedures to allow non-governmental organisations operating in the sphere of plant variety protection under the Community plant variety protection system to send observers to its meetings.

Find out more by downloading the detailed decision