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Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Farm Saved Seed) (Prescribed Species and Groups) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Regulations, 2015 (G.S.I. No. 82 of 2015).

Country/Territory
Guernsey (UK)
Document type
Regulation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Plant production Plant variety Planting material/seeds Breeders' rights/farmers' rights Intellectual property rights/patents
Geographical area
Europe, North Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations prescribe the varieties in relation to which the exemption of section 18(l) of the Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007 applies. Section 18(l) provides that plant breeders' rights do not extend to the use by farmers of prescribed varieties of material for propagating purposes in certain circumstances, i.e., the rights of a person who is registered as the proprietor of plant breeders’ rights in the Register of Plant Breeders’ Rights shall not extend to the use by a farmer for propagating purposes in the field, on his own holding, of the product of the harvest which he has obtained by planting on his own holding propagating material of - (a) the protected variety, or (b) a variety which is essentially derived from the protected variety (farm saved seeds).

Full text
English
Website
www.guernseylegalresources.gg

References - Legislation

Implements

Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007 (No. IV of 2007).

Legislation | Guernsey (UK) | 2007

Keyword: Basic legislation, Plant production, Plant variety, Planting material/seeds, Breeders' rights/farmers' rights, Access and benefit-sharing, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Genetic resources, Offences/penalties, Intellectual property rights/patents

Source: FAO, FAOLEX