Policy paper

Plant varieties and seeds: provisional common framework

How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in policy areas covering plant varieties and seeds.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 3 February 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Provisional UK common framework on plant varieties and seeds

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3054-2, CP 591

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This command paper sets out how the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together on:

• the intellectual property rights of plant breeders
• plant variety registration
• setting standards for marketing and certification of seed (and other plant propagating material) and ensuring that these standards are upheld

The provisional common framework has received ministerial approval from all 4 governments. It was laid in the UK Parliament to enable parliamentary scrutiny to begin.

Published 3 February 2022