News

The disruption of the online variety register has been resolved. 

The online Dutch variety register is currently experiencing technical issues

The Gazette is the government publication sheet. The new Gazette is published every month.

Following our news item published in August, the submission conditions for courgette and various cabbage crops have been revised again. Important: the final submission date for the DUS sample for courgette, cauliflower, kale, savoy cabbage and kohlrabi has been postponed by two weeks. 

The Gazette is the government publication sheet. The new Gazette is published every month.

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.

The Gazette is the government publication sheet. The new Gazette is published every month.

The Gazette is the government publication sheet. The new Gazette is published every month.