The April 2024 issue of the APBREBES newsletter is published on their website. Topics: UPOV and smallholder rights, NGTS and EU regulation.
UPOV 2024 annual session
The annual session of the UPOV will be held in Geneva in October 2024. More information on the various meetings is available in the UPOV online calendar of events.
UPOV Working Group on Guidance concerning Smallholder Farmers in relation to private and non-commercial use
5th meeting of the UPOV WG-SHF. The documents from the 4th meeting are available online.
UPOV Working Group on harvested Material and Unauthorized Use of Propagating Material
5th meeting of the WG-HRV. All the documents from the 4th meeting are available online.
Report “The Right to Seeds in Africa” published
The Geneva Academy, together with policy research think thank The South Center, Swissaid and CROPS4HD, released a new report on UPOV and UNDROP by the title: The Right To Seeds In Africa.
UPOV Working Group HRV 3rd meeting
Third meeting of the Working Group on harvested Material and Unauthorized use of Propagating Material
Use of molecular markers in DUS studies
The Workshop is intended to instruct participants that work on in variety registration on the theory and practices on molecular markers and their uses in DUS testing.
Working Group on Guidance concerning Smallholder Farmers in relation to private and non-commercial use
Working Group on Guidance concerning Smallholder Farmers in relation to private and non-commercial use
UPOV, 1st Meeting of the Working Group on Harvested Material and Unauthorized Use of Propagating Material
For more information follow the dedicated UPOV website: https://www.upov.int/meetings/en/topic.jsp?group_id=347
SPD#8: UPOV Convention – its Impact on Farmers in Europe and Globally
To discuss policy developments that affect crop diversity movements, the European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity (ECLLD) has launched a series of virtual Seed Policy Dialogues. The last SPD of the year in December 2021 was dedicated to plant variety protection, and more specifically to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention