IP/N/1/IRL/54  
IP/N/1/IRL/P/14  
 
2 June 2023  
(23-3791) Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
IRELAND : PLANT VARIETIES (PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2000  
(S.I. NO. 490/2000)  
Notifying Member  IRELAND  
 
Details of the notified legal text 
  
Title Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations, 2000 
(S.I. No. 490/2000)  
Subject matter  Patents (including plant variety protection)  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2023/IP/IRL/23_09596_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[X] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/IRL/1  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
These Regulations , which implement certain amendments and extensions to the Plant Varieties 
(Proprietary Rights) Act, 1980 prescribe:  
 
(1)  The crop species to which the grant of rights applies.  
 
(2)  Duration of rights.  
 
(3)  Fees to be charged.  
 
(4)  Allow the holder of an Irish grant of plant breeders' rights to keep in place his national plant 
breeders' rights (but without exercising such rights) and thereby retain the option of reverting 
to the exercise of national plant breeders' rights if the Comm unity plant breeders' rights are 
surrendered, by payment of a special reduced renewal fee.  
 
(5)  Repeal of previous regulations.  
 
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  Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  26 December 2000; Given under seal of Minister for Finance on 21/12/2000, 
given under seal of Minister for Agriculture on 26/12/2000.  
Other date   Adoption: 26 December 2000  
 
Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  14 April 2023  
Other information  This Statutory Instrument revokes the following Statutory Instruments:  
 
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1984 
(S.I. No. 137 of 1984)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1986 
(S.I. No. 46 of 1986)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 
(S.I. No. 46 of 1988)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 
(S.I. No. 199 of 1990)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 
(S.I. No. 31 of 1991)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 
(S.I. No. 35 of 1992)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992 
(S.I. No. 369 of 1992)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1 993 
(S.I. No. 78 of 1993)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1993 
(S.I. No. 332 of 1993)  
Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 
(S.I. No. 393 of 1994)  
 
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Intellectual Property Unit  
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment  
 
trademarks@enterprise.gov.ie   
 
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.