Instructions No.2-01/4 on the modalities of compilation and forwarding the application form for admission of selection achievements to testing. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1994 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Intellectual property rights/patents Plant variety Crops/grasses Registration Geographical area Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract Application form for admission of selection achievements to testing must be forwarded to State Commission of the Russian Federation on testing and protection of selection achievements attached to the Ministry of Agriculture. In order to carry out testing of a selection achievement for the purpose of authorization for use thereof in the next in turn agricultural season the application form must be forwarded not over than the 15th of January for autumn sowing crops and not over than the 1 December for all other crops and species. The application must regard only one selection achievement and contain the following information: (a) application form for state registration of selection achievement in accordance with form No. 300 (subjoined in the Annex to the present Instructions); (b) form of species or variety; (c) authorization ensuring the right of the declarant to forward the application form (for legal successors and intermediaries of selection achievements submitted for the issuance of patent); and (d) certificate ensuring payment of dues for forwarding the application form and its preliminary expertise. Full text Russian Website www.government.ru