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UPOV DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE DL-205
"Introduction to the UPOV System of Plant Variety Protection 
Under the UPOV Convention"
Course dates: November 8 to December 12, 2010
(On-line Registration:  August 1 to September 30, 2010)

Naktuinbouw - Course on Plant Variety Protection, Wageningen, Netherlands
from June 20 to July 1, 2011 (Adobe PDF)

UPOV Job Opportunities
Senior Techical Counsellor (UPOV51)  (deadline: July 30, 2010)
Secretary II (UPOV52)  (deadline: July 9, 2010)

UPOV's First-Ever Open Day
WIPO-UPOV Headquarters, Place des Nations
June 5, 2010

KAVB Symposium: Plant names, global challenges
Amsterdam, October 11 to 13, 2010
(Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association (KAVB), Netherlands)

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 (Adobe PDF)

Second World Seed Conference
Responding to the challenges of a changing world: The role of new plant varieties
and high quality seed in agriculture
FAO, Rome, September 8-10, 2009
(Declaration)   (WSC Proceedings)

First ECOSA International Seed Trade Conference (ECOSA 2009)
Antalya, Turkey
December 2 to 4, 2009
On-line registration:  http://www.selennet.com/demo/ecosa

Assistance offered by Naktuinbouw
(helpdesk on pratical technical questions)
(Information on internship at Naktuinbouw) (internship application form)

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 of UPOV) (Comments of UPOV on Draft Study)