Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division: Registered Files, International Protection of New Plant Varieties (ADC Series)

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Reference: MAF 399
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division: Registered Files, International Protection of New Plant Varieties (ADC Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files dealing with the Plant Variety Rights Office's work with the international unions for the Protection of New Plant Varieties, and other international plant variety rights matters.
Date: 1965-1973
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ADC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division, 1965-1989
Physical description: 5 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates: 1966
Administrative / biographical background:

The International Union for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV) derived from the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, and consisted of the UK and seven other European countries who signed the convention. The broad effect of the convention was that each member state would undertake to grant plant breeders rights to persons domiciled or having registered offices in other member states.

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