Community Plant Variety Office

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Community Plant Variety Office Seat Angers, France Signed Established 1994 Pillar European Communities Director Bart Kiewiet Website cpvo.europa.eu

The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is an agency of the European Union, located in Angers, France. It was established in 1994. Its task is to administer a system of plant variety rights, also known as plant breeders' rights, a form of intellectual property right relating to plants. The CPVO works rather like the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market: it grants intellectual property protection for new plant varieties. These rights are valid for a period of either 25 or 30 years.

See also

• International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)

External links

• Community Plant Variety Office

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