The Community Plant Variety Office
At a Glance
27-11-2015
The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), located in Angers (France), is a decentralised agency of the EU. Operational since 1995, it is responsible for the management of a specific intellectual property rights protection system covering the entire EU. It grants Community plant variety rights and maintains databases on plant varieties. Unlike most other EU agencies, it is fully self-financed and therefore not subject to budgetary discharge by the European Parliament.
At a Glance
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- agricultural activity
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- budget
- budgetary discharge
- Community Plant Variety Office
- competence of the institution
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- FINANCE
- financing and investment
- financing method
- institutional structure
- intellectual property
- legal basis
- operation of the Institutions
- plant variety right
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property