Official Gazette of the CPVO
After the decision of the President of the Office of 16/11/2009, the 6 official gazettes and the S2 gazette will be exclusively available in digital format, free of charge, on the website of the Office.
2010 issues will be downloadable from this page (see hereunder).
Older issues will be freely downloadable from the Archive page to which you will find a link below and where they will be referenced by years. 2009 to 2001 issues are available in pdf format. Please be aware that gazettes from 2000 to 1995 are scanned versions of hard copies, files are bigger and take longer to download.
Paper copies of pre-2010 CPVO Publications will be for sale, if printed versions are still available (please consult the inside back cover of the digital copy for further details)
The Official Journal of the Community Plant Variety Office (the Official Gazette) is published in nearly all official languages of the European Union.
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Official Gazette of the CPVO
It is divided into two parts:
● Part A : contains basic information about the different varieties; complies with the UPOV recommendations as to publication of plant breeders rights.
Content :Chapter I : table 1, contains all valid applications received within a period of 2 months. Table 2 lists all applications received under the transitional regime.
Chapter II : contains the proposed variety denominations already tested but not yet approved. Third parties have 3 months to file an objection; time is running as from the publication date of the Official Gazette.
Chapter III lists all withdrawals of applications over the reference period.
Chapter IV : Decisions taken by the Office are published under Chapter IV.
Chapter V indicates transfers of holdership and changes in procedural representatives.
Chapter VI lists terminated varieties in addition to the type of termination.
ChapterVII is meant for compulsory exploitation rights, none yet recorded.
Chapter VIII contains contractual exploitation rights, details of the holders and their licensees in respect of a variety.
Chapter IX provides information on recently lodged appeals and decisions on the appeals.
Chapter X the Corrigendum encompasses corrections to previously wrongfully published information.
Chapter XI was created to provide information about the Client Database to establish the official registers; currently the chapter contains one table, with two columns, the first one is a list of invalidated duplicate client entries and the second one the list of kept client entries.
Chapter XII contains other particulars entered in the registers not yet in the above chapters. Table 1 provides information on rights of third parties, more specifically deeds of pledge, when applications and rights are given as a security for a loan; pledgor (the applicant or the holder) and pledgee ( the bank) are indicated. Sub – tables indicate beginning and end of the pledges. Table 2 also provides information on rights of third parties, when applications and rights are the subject matter of a levy of execution following a court decision, i.e. when applications and rights are confiscated on behalf of a person. Indications as to when it starts and when it's lifted are given in the sub-tables.
Download 2010 issues:- issue #1 (published on 15/02/2010)
- issue #2 (available on 15/04/2010)
- issue #3 (available on 15/06/2010)
- issue #4 (available on 15/08/2010)
- issue #5 (available on 15/10/2010)
- issue #6 (available on 15/12/2010)
Archive page for older issues of the Gazette
● Part B : contains general information about fees, national information about the farm saved seeds exemption, new test guidelines approved by the Administrative Council, new forms, new technical questionnaires, the list of national offices, publication developments… The information is not always provided in full and refers interested parties to a specific address on the website of the Office. -
Special issue of the Official Gazette of the CPVO (S2)
Requirement for the submission of plant material.
This list is published once a year within a special issue of the CPVO's Gazette (S2) . Modifications entering into force throughout the year before the publication of the next S2 Gazette are published in the regular Gazette of the CPVO.
