We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
Guidance, application forms and protocols for plant breeders' rights, national listing, seed certification and farmed saved seed.
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
Variety description forms for applications to add amateur vegetables to the national list.
Information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds Regulations 2001.
The Tribunal makes decisions about national listing of new varieties of plants, UK plant variety rights and certain forestry matters. PVST is a tribunal of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs .
Form to apply to be a maintainer of a plant variety on the UK National List.
Varieties of plant species that Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) and Northern Ireland require to be registered on their variety lists.
How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in policy areas covering plant varieties and seeds.
Protocols and procedures for testing the value for cultivation or use (VCU) of agricultural crops.
Farm Saved Seed rules, eligible species for payment and how to declare and make payments online.
Who does DUS (distinctiveness, uniformity and stability) testing in the UK, what they test for and how to contact them.
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
How to apply for certification, the register of growers and fees for crop and tuber inspections under the Seed Potato Classification Scheme (SPCS).
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
Form to submit details of seeds for National List or plant breeders' rights.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).