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Highlights of past meetings and comments by APBREBES

UPOV Session 2024

22 October 2024 - 25 October 2024

The 2024 session included meetings of the Adminstrative and Legal Committee, the Consultive Committee, the Council, the Working group on harvested material and unauthorized use of propagating material and the Working Group on Guidance concerning Smallholder Farmers in relation to private and non-commercial use.

UPOV Session 2023

25 October 2023 - 27 October 2023

The 2023 session included meetings of the Adminstrative and Legal Committee, the Consultive Committee, the Council, the Working group on harvested material and unauthorized use of propagating material and the Working Group on Guidance concerning Smallholder Farmers in relation to private and non-commercial use.

UPOV Spring Session 2023

21 March 2023 - 24 March 2023

The 2023 spring session included meetings of the Council, the Working group on harvested material and unauthorized use of propagating material, the Working Group on Guidance concerning Smallholder Farmers in relation to private and non-commercial use and a Seminar on the interaction between plant variety protection and the use of plant breeding technologies.

UPOV Session 2022

26 October 2022 - 28 October 2022

The 2022 session included meetings of the Adminstrative and Legal Committee, the Consultive Committee, and the Council.

UPOV Session 2021

27 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

The 2021 session included meetings of the Adminstrative and Legal Committee, the Consultive Committee, and the Council.

Working Group on Essentially Derived Varieties

19 October 2021

Summary of the negotiations in the Working Group on Essentially Derived Varieties (2020 – 2021)

Comment concerning the draft Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties

27 August 2021

A new section III «Options for the enforcement of breeders’ rights in relation to essentially derived varieties» was inserted in the draft «Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties under the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention» and provides options for the titleholders for the enforcement of their breeders rights. But, how titleholders enforce their rights is not part of the UPOV Convention – and should therefore not be part of an explanatory note on EDVs.

Comments by APBREBES on the document “Developments on the Plant Variety Protection Act (Act 1050 of 2020) of Ghana”

24 June 2021

The commentary was prepared jointly and with the support of Food Sovereignity Ghana. It clarifies that Clause 22 of the Plant Variety Protection Act of Ghana clearly contradicts Art. 18 of UPOV 1991. It is therefore incomprehensible how the Office of the Union can come to the conclusion that the changes introduced in the Act during the parliamentary procedure do not affect the substantive provisions of the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention.

Exception of acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes

01 February 2021

Observers were invited to share their views on the implementation of the exception of acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes in relation to smallholder farmers.

UPOV Session 2020

26 October 2020 - 30 October 2020

The 2020 session included meetings of the Adminstrative and Legal Committee, the Consultive Committee, and the Council.

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