Law No. 915 on the protection of plant varieties.

This Law consists of 11 Chapters that contain 47 articles. This Law shall govern relations arising out of creation, use, registration and legal protection of plant varieties, breeders' rights and shall apply to botanical genera and plant species the list of which shall be approved by the Government. The scope of this Law is to recognize and protect the rights of plant variety certified by the grant of a variety patent. A plant variety shall be deemed new if, at the date of filing of the application for the grant of a patent with the authorized agency, material of the variety has not been sold or otherwise disposed of to others, by or with the consent of the breeder, for the purposes of commercial exploitation of the variety: 1) in the territory of the Republic of Moldova, earlier than one year before that date; 2) in the territory of any other State, earlier than six years in the case of varieties of trees, fruit trees and grapevines, or, in case of varieties of other species, earlier than four years before the said date.