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How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
How to apply for variety listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI).
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
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.
Guidance, application forms and protocols for plant breeders' rights, national listing, seed certification and farmed saved seed.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
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 .
Use this service to apply for a free sale certificate or a manufacture and free sale certificate to accompany a consignment of fertilisers for export.
How much it costs to apply for plant breeders’ rights or to add a new plant variety to the Variety Lists.
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