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How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
Variety description forms for applications to add amateur vegetables to the national list.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
Information on the different types of commercial fishing vessel licences.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Form to apply to be a maintainer of a plant variety on the UK National List.
Apply for a licence to release non-native (alien) and schedule 9 species, or release native Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures, and how to report your actions.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
The Tribunal makes decisions about national listing of new varieties of plants, UK plant variety rights and certain forestry matters. PVST is a tribunal of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs .
Guidance, application forms and protocols for plant breeders' rights, national listing, seed certification and farmed saved seed.
This variety was bred for high content of iron and zinc
Equity (Incorporating the Variety Artistes’ Federation): annual returns, rules, statement to members, decisions and other related documents.
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
How much it costs to apply for plant breeders’ rights or to add a new plant variety to the national list.
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
Information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds Regulations 2001.
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