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UPOV Governing Body Meets This Week Amid Civil Society Concerns Over Harmonisation

Published by IP Watch - 14 October 2014
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http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/10/13/upov-governing-body-meets-this-week-amid-civ…
The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is holding meetings of its governing and technical bodies this week. In particular, the UPOV Council is expected to renew Francis Gurry’s mandate as the organisation’s secretary-general, approve technical documents, and confirm the conformity of a Tanzanian plant breeders’ rights act.

Meanwhile, civil society has sounded the alarm over what it considers to be efforts to harmonise the application and examination procedures by the seed industry. Separately, a civil society study, carried out on three developing countries claims that UPOV 1991 might be threatening the global right to food.

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