Welcome to the Community Plant Variety Office Website

This office is an European Union agency, which manages a system of plant variety rights covering the 27 member States.

The CPVO is pleased to announce that its online filing system is now available.

This new service - opened on 23/03/2010 - enables users to apply for a Community plant variety right online. For the time being this option is only available in English, but the CPVO will make this possibility also available in Dutch, German and French before the end of the year.

Currently, e-filing can only be made in respect of varieties of:

Chrysanthemum L.
Lactuca sativa L.
Prunus persica (L.) Batsch.
Rosa L.
Solanum tuberosum L.

The CPVO will rapidly extend the offer to other species. Please be aware that paper applications remain of course possible.