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

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Reference: MAF 404
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division: Registered Files, International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (AD Series)
Description:

Records of the Plant Variety Rights Office dealing with the protection of plant breeders' rights under the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants.

Date: 1962-1977
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AD 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: 15 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1965 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (1961) which was signed by the UK and seven other European countries. This convention established the International Union for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV). 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. It was ratified by the UK in 1965, and came into force in 1968 when three countries had ratified it.

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