Law on the Protection of New Plant Varieties No. 255/1998. País/Territorio Rumania Tipo de documento Legislación Fecha 1998 (2011) Fuente FAO, FAOLEX Fuente original Official Gazette of Romania 926/2011 Materia Cultivos Palabra clave Derechos de seleccionadores/derechos de agricultores Derechos de propiedad intelectual/patentes Variedad vegetal Materiales de propagación/semillas Protección vegetal Registro Legislación básica Producción vegetal Área geográphica Mar Negro, Europa Oriental, Europa, Europa y Central Asia, Países de la Unión Europea Resumen The Law provides for the recognition and protection of Breeders' rights for those breeders involved in researching, developing and breeding new plant varieties of all genera and species in Romania. The Breeders shall fill an application for a patent to the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, that shall grant it if the new plant variety complies with being new (never sold or otherwise traded or used with or without the Breeder’s consent), distinct (recognizable from a comparison variety as per its genotype or mix of genotypes), uniform (maintaining its characteristics in respect of a comparison variety for both specie and genotype);and stable (preserving these very same features in every repeated propagation cycle). The new variety shall be indicated with a denomination that shall indicate it and that shall be reported in the patent application and anyway it shall identify the variety therefore, as per article 15. Application and patent shall be registered in the National Register of the Variety Patent Applications and the patent, following testing by the State Institute for Testing and Registration of Varieties (I.S.T.I.S.), shall be published in the Official Bulletin of Industrial Property (BOPI- SSPBS). Texto completo Inglés Página web istis.ro Referencias - Legislación Implementado por Implementing Regulations of the Law on the Protection of New Plant Varieties No.255/1998. Legislación | Rumania | 1998 Palabra clave: Derechos de seleccionadores/derechos de agricultores, Derechos de propiedad intelectual/patentes, Variedad vegetal, Materiales de propagación/semillas, Protección vegetal, Registro, Producción vegetal Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX