European Plant Variety Rights (EU PBR)

With a granted EU PBR, your plant is protected in all countries within the European Union by European law. The Community Plant Variety Office, CPVO in short, is dealing with EU PBR. This office is located in Angers, France.

​

Directly after application, your plant will have provisional PBR. The next step is crucial for the application itself, the DUS test. Your new cultivar will be investigated on three vital aspects during this test:

• Distinctiveness: is your cultivar distinct compared to other species and cultivars;

• Uniformity: do all submitted plants remain the same, or are there differences at the start or during the test;

• Stability: do the plants remain stable, such as ‘do variegated plants revert’.

In most cases the DUS test takes one or two years, however, there are exceptions. These exceptions are often genus related and in rarer cases related to issues during the test. The DUS tests are performed by national testing stations in EU countries, affiliated to the CPVO. 

​

When the DUS test is judged positive, the EU PBR will be officially granted. The granted EU PBR has to be renewed each year, by paying an annual fee. After a maximum of 25 years for herbacious perennials and 30 years for woody plants and bulbs your rights expire.

​

We are specialized in preparing, filing and accompanying your PBR applications.

Please, contact us to discuss possibilities and services we could provide for you.