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The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is an agency of the European Union, located in Angers, France. It was established in 1994. Its task is to administer a system of plant variety rights, also known as plant breeders' rights, a form of intellectual property right relating to plants. ==Community Plant Variety Right== The CPVO works rather like the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market: it grants intellectual property protection for new plant varieties fullfilling the following requirements: Community plant variety rights shall be granted for varieties that are:〔 * distinct; * uniform; * stable; and * new. The right has validity in the European Union in a similar manner that OHIM registers Community Trademarks and the Community Design. Beside the Community Plant Variety Right, some individual EU countries administer its own plant variety right system. However, it is not possible to obtain a Community Plant Variety Right for a plant variety that is subject to a national Plant Variety Right. Plant Variety rights are valid for a period of either 25 or (in the case of varieties of vine and tree species) 30 years.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Community Plant Variety Office」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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