Cabinet Regulation No. 518 of 2012 on Assessment of Value for Cultivation and Use of Plant Variety Country/Territory Latvia Document type Regulation Date 2012 (2016) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Plant variety Royalties/fees Breeders' rights/farmers' rights Ecological production/organic production Intellectual property rights/patents Geographical area Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe Abstract The Regulation prescribes the requirements, procedures and pricing for the assessment of value for cultivation and use of a plant variety. A variety is assessed according to the indicators referred to in Annex 1 to this Regulation in order to ascertain the suitability of the variety in conventional farming; and the suitability of the variety in organic farming. The variety assessment is the comparison of cultivation, use of the variety and of quality of the product acquired from it with the standard variety. Several assessment groups may be determined for the species where each of them may have one or several standard varieties. A list of standard varieties according to the determined assessment groups upon recommendation of the National Plant Variety Council is created and updated by the Latvia University of Agriculture. Full text English Website www.vvc.gov.lv References - Legislation Implements Commission Directive 2003/90/EC setting out implementing measures for the purposes of Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/53/EC as regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of agricultural plant species. Legislation | European Union | 2003 Keyword: Plant production, Plant variety, Planting material/seeds, Certification, Cereals/grains/rice, Sugar cane/sugar beet, Internal trade, Crops/grasses, Agricultural commodities Source: FAO, FAOLEX Seed and Variety Circulation Law (1999) Legislation | Latvia | 1999 (2013) Keyword: Planting material/seeds, Vegetables/legumes, Crops/grasses, Fruits/edible nuts, Internal trade, International trade, Basic legislation, Plant production Source: FAO, FAOLEX