Key Issues
Responding to the challenges of a changing world |
Second World Seed Conference |
UPOV's response to: General Assembly of the United Nations - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food | Note from the representatives of the members of the Union to the Council of UPOV, presented to the Third Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 21, 2009, concerning the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food |
Impact Study | UPOV Report on the Impact of Plant Variety Protection (UPOV Publication 353(E)) |
Breeder's exemption |
Breeder's exemption in the 1978 and the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention UPOV/EXP/EXC Explanatory Notes on Exceptions to the Breeder's Right under the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention |
Contracts | Symposium on Contracts in Relation to Plant Breeders' Rights UPOV, Geneva, October 31, 2008 |
Notion of Breeder and Common Knowledge | The Notion of Breeder and Common Knowledge |
Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing |
Reply of January 23, 2009, to the letter of the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of December 19, 2008, providing a peer review of the draft “Study on the relationship between the ABS International Regimen and other international instruments which govern the use of genetic resources: The World Trade Organization (WTO); the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); and the Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)” Letter to the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) containing a decision of the Council of UPOV for consideration by the Conference of Parties of the CBD at its ninth meeting to be held in Bonn, Germany, from May 19 to 30, 2008 Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing |
Trade and Transfer of Technology | International Harmonization is Essential for Effective Plant Variety Protection and Transfer of Technology (Based on an intervention in the Council for TRIPS, September 19, 2002) |
Plant Biotechnology | WIPO-UPOV Symposium on Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Biotechnology (Geneva, October 24, 2003) WIPO-UPOV Symposium on the Co-existence of Patents and Plant Breeders' Rights in the Promotion of Biotechnological Developments (Geneva, October 25, 2002) |
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) | Getting the Most of Out of Your New Plant Variety |
Other | Position of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) concerning Decision VI/5 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (April 11, 2003) |