Closing date application fee for prolongation

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This year prolongation of registration can be applied for varieties of vegetable and agricultural species which have been registered in 2018. This also applies to all vegetable varieties which have been registered in 1993 until 2003.

The Board for plant varieties has been working with CPVO for some time on the harmonization of Technical Questionnaires (TQs). The objective is to make as many CPVO and the Board for plant varieties TQs as possible identical on a one-to-one basis. This harmonisation will make it easier for applicants to submit either a national application or a CPVO application, as the information can simply be copied from one application to the other. Recently, a number of additional TQs have been harmonized.