NATIONAL PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION - COBORU
Plant Breeder's Right, granted by the Director of COBORU, is
exercisable exclusively on the territory of Poland - national PBR protection level.
Register of varieties protected by national Plant Breeders' Rights (PBR) is an official list of protected varieties and their breeders as well as licensees who were granted a compulsory licence.
PBR refers to varieties of all plant genera and species.
COMMUNITY PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION - CPVO (www.cpvo.europa.eu)
Community plant variety right (CPVR) - EU protection level - is granted by the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), with headquarters in Angers in France.
A grant of Community plant variety right gives protection throughout the European Union territory. CPVR has a superior character to national protection right.
Where the breeder of a variety protected in Poland is granted Community plant variety right, national PBR granted in Poland shall be suspended for the period, throughout which the breeder enjoys the Community plant variety right, but no longer than for the duration of PBR in Poland. The national protection right shall then have no legal effect and shall become a "sleeping right" for the duration of CPVR.
Varieties with suspended national protection are charged full the annual maintenance fee.
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
On surrender of national Plant Breeder’s Right in Poland, the variety can still be protected according to the European Plant Variety Protection regulation (see: www.cpvo.europa.eu)
Visitors to this site are warned that the internet version of the lists does not have any official status. The Official Gazette of COBORU containing The List of Varieties Protected by Plant Breeders' Rights and the List of Varieties Which are the Subject of an Application for the Grant of Plant Breeders' Rights - Protected by Provisional PBR (valid on June 30 of each year), remains the only official publication.