IP/C/W/609/Add.6  
 
12 October 2015  
(15-5331)  Page: 1/9  
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
  TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES: INFORMATION FROM  
OTHER INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW VARIETIES OF PLANTS (UPOV) 
Addendum 
 
At its meeting of 9-10 June 2015, the Council for TRIPS agreed to invite intergovernmental organization observers to the Council to update the information on their technical and financial cooperation programmes relating to the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement. 
 
The present document reproduces the information which has been received from the International Union for The Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) by means of a communication dated 
9 October 2015. 
 
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UPOV's mission is to provide and promote an effective system of plant variety protection, with the aim of encouraging the development of new vari eties of plants, for the benefit of society. 
 
Information on membership of  UPOV can be found at:  http://www.upov.int/members/en/   
 
The main objectives of UPOV are, in accordance with the UPOV Convention, to: 
 
 provide and develop the legal, administrative and technical basis for international 
cooperation in plant variety protection; 
 assist States and organizations in the develo pment of legislation and the implementation 
of an effective plant variety protection system; and 
 enhance public awareness and understanding  of the UPOV system of plant variety 
protection. 
Information on the technical and financial cooperation programs of UPOV in relation to UPOV's 
objectives is provided as follows:  
Assistance to States and Organizations in the deve lopment of legislation and the implementation of 
an effective plant variety protection system 
 
Annex I to this report provides information on UPOV's activities in relation to the development of 
legislation and the implementation of an effective plant variety protection system for the period 2014-2015.  
International Cooperation 
 
Annex II to this report provides information on international cooperation facilitated by UPOV. 
 
Annex III contains a list of acronyms and abbreviations used in this report. IP/C/W/609/Add.6 
 
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  ANNEX I1 
 
UPOV'S ACTIVITIES IN RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION AND  
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EFFECTIVE PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION SYSTEM  
FOR THE PERIOD 2014-2015 
Objectives:  
  To raise awareness of the role of pl ant variety protection according to the 
UPOV Convention 
 To assist States and organizations,  particularly governments of developing 
countries and countries in transition to a market economy, in the development of 
legislation in accordance with t he 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention. 
 To assist States and organizations in  their accession to the 1991 Act of the 
UPOV Convention. 
 To assist States and organizations in  implementing an effective plant variety 
protection system in accordance  with the UPOV Convention. 
  
1  ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION: 
The Office provided assistance on plant variety protec tion legislation to the following UPOV members:  
Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Singapore. 
 The Office provided advice and assistance on the development of plant variety protection legislation 
according to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention a nd/or on the procedure to accede to the UPOV 
Convention to:  ARIPO, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, 
Cambodia, Egypt, Guatemala, Iran (Islamic Republic  of), Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Liberia, Malaysia, 
Mauritius, Myanmar, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal , Tajikistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, 
United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.  
2  PARTICIPATION IN UPOV AWARENESS- RAISING ACTIVITIES, OR ACTIVITIES 
INVOLVING UPOV STAFF OR UPOV TRAINERS ON BEHALF OF UPOV STAFF / UPOV 
AWARENESS-RAISING ACTIVITIES, OR ACTIVITIES INVOLVING UPOV STAFF OR UPOV TRAINERS ON BEHALF OF UPOV STAFF 
2.1  Activities organized by, or with, UPOV:  
 National training course for DUS experts on "Harmonizing the examination of 
distinctness, uniformity and stability for new plant varieties in Spanish examination offices accredited by the Community Plant Va riety Office of the European Union (CPVO), 
Spanish, European Union and UPOV regulations", San Fernando de Henares, Spain 
(February 2014) 
 Study visit to UPOV headquarters for Groupement technique horticole de Genève 
(February 2014) 
 Pre-Congress Workshop on "International systems to develop an enabling environment 
to provide food security and economic development by strengthening the seed sector", Tunis, Tunisia (March 2014) 
 Seventh Annual Meeting of the EAPVP Forum, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic 
Republic (August 2014) 
 Symposium on "Plant Breeding and Protection of Breeder's Right are Key to Agricultural 
Development", Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic (August 2014) 
 Seminar and Workshop on Plant Variety Protection, Quevedo, Ecuador (October 2014) 
 Workshop on the Implementation and Raisin g Awareness of Plant Variety Protection, 
Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (October 2014) 
 Regional Workshop on the Draft ARIPO Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of 
Plants, Harare, Zimbabwe (October 2014) 
                                               
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   OECD/UPOV/ISTA Joint Workshop on Molecular Techniques, Seoul, Republic of Korea 
(November 2014) 
 Training course on "Contributing data to the PLUTO database", Geneva, Switzerland 
(December 2014) 
 Train the trainer course for Ibero-American countries: plant variety protection under the 
UPOV Convention and complementary forms of intellectual property protection, Montevideo, Uruguay (December 2014) 
 Seminar on Plant Breeding in Peru under the UPOV Convention, Lima, Peru 
(December 2014) 
 UPOV/ISTA/OECD Pre-Congress Workshop on "International systems to develop an 
enabling environment to provide food se curity and economic development by 
strengthening the seed sector", Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (March 2015) 
 Training Course on Plant Variety Protection, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania (April-
May 2015) 
 Train the Trainer Course on Plant Variety Protection under the UPOV Convention, UPOV 
headquarters, Geneva (May 2015) 
 ARIPO Expert Committee Meeting, Arusha, Un ited Republic of Tanzania (June-July 2015) 
 ARIPO Administrative Council, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania (July 2015) 
 ARIPO Diplomatic Conference for the adoption of the Draft Protocol for the Protection of 
New Varieties of Plants (Plant breeders' rights)", Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania (July 2015) 
 Eighth Annual Meeting of the EAPVP Forum, Seoul, Republic of Korea (September 2015) 
 KSVS Symposium on Plant Variety Protecti on "Application procedure from foreign 
countries", Seoul, Republic of Korea (September 2015) 
 Training Course "Contributing Data to the PLUTO Database", UPOV headquarters, 
Geneva (September 2015) 
 International Training Course on Plant Variety Protection and Examination of 
Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS ) under the UPOV Convention, Mexico City, 
Mexico (September 2015) 
 
2.2  Activities/meetings in which UPOV participated: 
 OECD Seed Scheme meetings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (January 2014) 
 Twenty-sixth session of the WIPO IGC, Geneva, Switzerland (February 2014) 
 Third meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya 
Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits 
Arising from their Utilization (ICNP-3), Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea (February 2014) 
 Meeting of the Council for TRIPS, Geneva, Switzerland (February 2014) 
 High-Level Awareness Raising Session on th e Internationally Harmonized Plant Variety 
Protection System, Putrajaya, Malaysia (February 2014) 
 Fourteenth AFSTA Annual Congress, Tunis, Tunisia (March 2014) 
 WTO Workshop on the TRIPS Agreement and IP-Related Matters, Port Louis, Mauritius 
(March 2014) 
 CPVO Administrative Council, Nitra, Slovakia (March 2014) 
 WIPO-UBIS program for a group of Phd. students from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian 
National University of Kazakhstan, Geneva, Switzerland (March 2014) 
 Twenty-seventh session of the WIPO IGC, Geneva, Switzerland (March 2014) 
 WFO General Assembly, Buenos Aires, Argentina (March 2014) 
 CIOPORA Annual General Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands (April 2014) 
 Information sessions with OAPI officials, Yaoundé, Cameroon (April 2014) 
 Technical Working Group of the OECD Scheme for the Certification of Forest 
Reproductive Material Moving in International Trade, Paris, France (April 2014) 
 Fifth Edition of the WIPO-QUT Master of Intellectual Property Law, Brisbane, Australia 
(May 2014) 
 ISF World Seed Congress 2014, Beijing, China (May 2014)  
 International Conference "On the Most Impo rtant Reserves of Implementing the Food 
Program in Uzbekistan", Tashkent, Uzbekistan (June 2014) 
 Annual Meeting of the OECD Seed Schemes, Zagreb, Croatia (June 2014) 
 Meeting of the Council for TRIPS, Geneva, Switzerland (June 2014) 
 Seventeenth International Course on Plant Variety Protection (Naktuinbouw 2014), 
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   WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of In tellectual Property, Geneva, Switzerland 
(June 2014) 
 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School on Intellectual Property, Geneva, Switzerland (June 2014) 
 KOICA/KSVS Training Course on "Plant Va riety Protection and DUS Testing", Seoul, 
Republic of Korea (June-July 2014) 
 10th Anniversary Celebrations of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for 
Food and Agriculture Coming into Force, Geneva, Switzerland (July 2014) 
 Twenty-eighth session of the WIPO IGC, Geneva, Switzerland (July 2014) 
 AGRA 10K Seed Company Convening, Kampala, Uganda (July 2014) 
 Seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic 
Resources for Food and Agriculture of FAO CGRFA, Rome, Italy (July 2014) 
 Meeting at Naktuinbouw headquarters to discuss developments in the Netherlands and 
UPOV, Roelofarendsveen, Netherlands (July 2014) 
 JICA training course "Quality Control System of Seeds and Seedlings to Facilitate 
Distribution of High Quality Seed s", Tsukuba, Japan (August 2014) 
 Seminar on Plant Breeders' Rights, Mexico City, Mexico (August 2014) 
 X International Workshop on DUS Examination of Plant Varieties, Mexico City, Mexico 
(August 2014) 
 Information session on UPOV at the National Center for Seeds and Seedlings (NCSS), 
Nishi Nihon Station, Kasakoka, Japan (August 2014) 
 Technical Working Group Meeting and Annual Meeting of the OECD Forest Seed and 
Plant Scheme, Paris, France (September 2014) 
 Forum francophone de l'innovation, Namur, Belgium (September 2014) 
 Meeting of Heads of Intellectual Property Offices for Caribbean countries, Geneva, 
Switzerland (September 2014) 
 CPVO Administrative Council, Brussels, Belgium (October 2014) 
 Vegetable Variety Open Day, Valencia, Spain (October 2014) 
 Meetings with the Ministry of Agriculture and Workshop with the National Seed 
Association of Chile, Santiago, Chile (October 2014) 
 Meeting of the Council for TRIPS, Geneva, Switzerland (October 2014) 
 SAA Workshop on Plant Variety Protection, Sao Paulo, Brazil (via electronic conferencing) 
(November 2014) 
 XML4IP Task Force Meeting, London, United Kingdom (November 2014) 
 APSA Congress 2014, Macau, China (November 2014) 
 Plant Variety Rights Intensive Module on Plant Variety Protection of the Master of 
Intellectual Property (Magister Lvcentinvs), Alicante, Spain (November 2014) 
 KSVS/KPMMRC Joint Symposium on the Current Status and Strategy for Using Molecular 
Markers in Variety Protection, Seoul, Republic of Korea (November 2014) 
 Thirty-Eighth Session of the Administrative Council of ARIPO, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 
(November 2014) 
 High-Level Round Table meeting on Plant Variety Protection in Africa, Cape Town, 
South Africa (November 2014) 
 Eighteenth Annual Meeting between CPVO and its Examination Offices, Angers, France 
(December 2014) 
 Workshop on seed quality and plant breeder's rights, Stone Town, Zanzibar, United 
Republic of Tanzania (December 2014)  
 Fifteenth Regular Session of the CGRFA, FAO headquarters, Rome (January 2015) 
 Technical Working Group of the OECD Scheme for the Certification of Seed Moving in 
International Trade, Paris, France (January 2015) 
 Meetings with the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Ghana 
during a study visit, Amsterdam, Netherlands (January 2015) 
 International Workshop on the promotion of Public-Private Partnerships for Pre-breeding, 
Montpellie r, France (February 2015) 
 Expert Forum on International Technology Transfer, Geneva, Switzerland (February 
2015) 
 Meeting of the Council for TRIPS, WTO headquarters, Geneva (February 2015) 
 Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Committee on Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic 
Resources for Food and Agriculture (ACSU), FAO headquarters, Rome (March 2015) 
 Fifteenth Annual Congress of AFSTA, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (March 2015) 
 CPVO Administrative Council, Angers, France (March 2015) 
 ASIPI Seminar on "Intellectual Property in Agriculture", Asunción, Paraguay 
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   ISF Breeders' Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland (March 2015) 
 WIPO-WTO Advanced Course on Intellectual Property for Government Officials, WIPO 
headquarters, Geneva (March 2015) 
 Joint WIPO-EU/CARIFORUM Sub-Regional Worksh op on Geographical Indications/Origin-
Linked Products and Branding, Bridgetown, Barbados (March 2015) 
 WIPO Seminar on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge 
and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Region al, National and Local Experiences, WIPO 
headquarters, Geneva (March-April 2015) 
 Master Curriculum in Plant Breeding of Institut Polytechnique LaSalle : lectures on plant 
variety protection under the UPOV Convention, Beauvais, France (April 2015) 
 Workshop on Plant Breeders' Rights and In tellectual Property Rights of Plants – 
Implementation in Turkey and in the Worl d (mainly the European Union), Antalya, 
Turkey (April 2015) 
 Presentation on UPOV at Instituto Pensar Agropecuaria , Brasilia, Brazil (April 2015) 
 National training course for DUS experts en titled "Armonización de los trabajos de 
distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad de nuevas variedades para los centros acreditados por la OCVV, Normativa Española, de la UE y de la UPOV", San Fernando de 
Henares (Madrid), Spain (April 2015) 
 CIOPORA Annual General Meeting, Hamburg, Germany (April 2015) 
 APSA Intellectual Property Rights Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand (May 2015) 
 Launch of the DuPont/Economist World Food Security Index at the Expo Milano 2015;  
panel discussion on food security at the ev ent "Food and agriculture: rural and urban 
innovations, a forum to highlight innovations in the food security challenge", Milan, Italy (May 2015) 
 ISF World Seed Congress 2015, Krakow, Poland (May 2015) 
 Presentation on the "Origin Green program:  Ireland's natural advantages, developing 
the sustainability charter and current status ", Permanent Mission of Ireland, Geneva 
(May 2015) 
 Annual Meeting of the OECD Seed Schemes and OECD Forum 2015 "Investing in the 
Future: People, Planet, Prosperity", Paris, France (June 2015) 
 KOICA/KSVS Training Course "Plant Variet y Protection and DUS Testing", Kimcheon, 
Republic of Korea (June 2015) 
 XML4IP Task Force Meeting, UPOV headquarters in Geneva (June 2015) 
 Meeting of the Council for TRIPS, WTO headquarters, Geneva (June 2015) 
 "Jornada de la Protección de las Variedades Vegetales y otros Derechos de Propiedad 
Industrial en el Desarrollo de la Agricultura", organized by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM), Madrid, Spain (June 2015) 
 Eighteenth International Course on Plant Variety Protection (Naktuinbouw 2015), 
Wageningen, Netherlands (June 2015) 
 JICA training course "Quality Control System of Seeds and Seedlings to Facilitate 
Distribution of High Quality Seeds", Tsukuba, Japan (June 2015) 
 WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property, WIPO headquarters, 
Geneva (June 2015) 
 WIPO Seminar on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge 
and Traditional Cultural Expressions: The Regional and International Dimensions, WIPO 
headquarters, Geneva (June 2015) 
 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School on Intellectual Property, WIPO headquarters, Geneva 
(June 2015) 
 Sixth Edition of the WIPO-QUT Master of Intellectual Property Law, Brisbane, Australia 
(July 2015) 
 Conference at the Expo Milano 2015 on "Clima te change and food security: challenges 
for plant health, plant breeding and genetic resources", Milan, Italy (July 2015) 
 OAPI Information and Awareness Seminar on the protection of new varieties of plants for 
experts from agricultural research centers and decision-makers in the field of agriculture, 
Buea, Cameroon (July 2015) 
 WECARD launching workshops for the ECOWAS-UEMOA-CILSS Regional Seed Committee 
(COASem & CRSU) and Alliance for Seed Industry  in West Africa (ASIWA), Abidjan, Côte 
d'Ivoire (August 2015) 
 Second Bolivian Seed Congress, Santa Cruz de  la Sierra, Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 
(August 2015) 
 Third Meeting of the Platform for the Co-Dev elopment and Transfer of Technologies, FAO 
headquarters, Rome (September 2015) IP/C/W/609/Add.6 
 
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   SAA Fifth Seed Congress of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico (September 2015) 
 Expo Milano 2015 event "International Geneva  Food Talks", Milan, Italy (September 
2015) 
3  PARTICIPATION IN UPOV DISTANCE LE ARNING COURSES DL-205 "INTRODUCTION TO 
THE UPOV SYSTEM OF PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION UNDER THE UPOV CONVENTION" AND DL-305 "EXAMINATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS" 
(INCLUDING DL-305, DL -305A AND DL-305B) 
3.1  Countries from which there were particip ants in the UPOV dist ance learning course 
DL-205 (2014 and 2015) 
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, 
Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, 
Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Un ion, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, 
Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Islamic Repub lic of Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lao People's 
Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Moro cco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Netherlands, New 
Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, OAPI, Oman, Paragu ay, People's Democratic Republic of Lao, Peru, 
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Re public of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, Russian 
Federation, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, the Former 
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United 
Republic of Tanzania, United States  of America, Uruguay, Vietnam  
(total:  72 countries and 2 organizations)  
3.2  Total number of participants in the DL-205 course (2014 and 2015) 
Category Number of 
participants 
Government officials of members of the Union 196 
Officials of observer States / intergovernmental organizations 7 
Total: 203 
 
 
3.3  Special sessions of the DL-205 course "I ntroduction to the UPOV System of Plant 
Variety Protection under the UP OV Convention" (in 2014 and 2015) 
Month/ 
Year Name of Course Number of 
participants 
June 2014 Naktuinbouw International Course on Plant Variety Protection 
Course (Netherlands) 11 
July 2014 KOICA Training Course on Plant Variety Protection ( Republic  of 
Korea) 13 
July 2014 JICA Training Course on "I nternationally Harmonized Plant 
Variety Protection System" (Japan) 10 
October 2014 Arusha PVP Training Course (Uni ted Republic of Tanzania) 10 
September 2014 International Seminar on Plant Variety protection and 
International Workshop on Plant Variety Characteristics: fine 
cocoa aroma (Ecuador) 219 
November 2014 Training Course for Ibero-American Countries on the Protection 
of New Varieties of Plants (Uruguay) 2 
June 2015 Naktuinbouw International Course on Plant Variety Protection 
Course (Netherlands) 14 
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  Month/ 
Year Name of Course Number of 
participants 
May 2015 KOICA Training Course on Plant Variety Protection (Republic of 
Korea) 6 
June 2015 Chile participants 37 
July 2015 JICA Training Course on "I nternationally Harmonized Plant 
Variety Protection System" (Japan) 10 
 
 
3.4  Total number of participants in the DL- 305 course "Examination of Applications for 
Plant Breeders' Rights" (in 2014 and 2015) 
Participants from Number of 
participants 
Government officials of members of the Union 198 
Officials of observer States / intergovernmental organizations 4 
Total: 202 
 
 
3.5  Total number of participants in the DL-305A course "Administration of Plant 
Breeders' Rights" (in 2015) 
Category Number of 
participants 
Government officials of members of the Union 58 
Officials of observer States / intergovernmental organizations 2 
Total: 60 
 
 
3.6  Total number of participants in the DL-305B course "DUS Examination" (in 2015) 
Category Number of 
participants 
Government officials of members of the Union 62 
Officials of observer States / intergovernmental organizations 2 
Total: 64 
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  ANNEX II1 
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FACILITATED BY UPOV 
 
UPOV facilitates cooperation in the exami nation of plant varieties as follows:  
 
a. Document C/49/5 "Cooperation in Examination" contains a synopsis of offers for 
cooperation in examination made by author ities, of cooperation already established 
between authorities and of any envisaged cooperation. 
(see http://www.upov.int/meetings/e n/details.jsp?meeting_id=36742 ) 
b. Document TC/51/4 "List of Genera and Species for which Authorities have Practical 
Experience in the Examination of Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability" provides 
information on plant genera and species for which authorities have practical experience in the examination of Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS). (see http://www.upov.int/meetings/e n/details.jsp?meeting_id=35045 ) 
c. UPOV has developed "Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity 
and Stability," or "Test Guidelines", for many individual species or other variety groupings (see http://www.upov.int/test_guidelines/en/ ).  The purpose of these Test 
Guidelines is to provide practical guidance for the harmonized examination of DUS and, 
in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.  In 2014, the adopted Test Guidelines 
covered 90% of all entries concerning plant variety protection in the PLUTO Plant Variety 
Database (238,388 of 263,614). 
d. The GENIE database provides a dynamic source of information on the cooperation 
explained above.  (see http://www.upov.int/genie/en/ ) 
The PLUTO Plant Variety Database provides information concerning plant breeders' 
rights.  (see http://www.upov.int/pluto/en/ ) 
 
                                               
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  ANNEX III1 
 
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 
 
UPOV terms 
 
DL-205 UPOV distance learning course "Introduction to the UP OV System of Plant Variety 
Protection under the UPOV Convention" 
DL-305 UPOV distance learning course "Exami nation of Applications for Plant Breeders' 
Rights" 
DUS Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability 
Office Office of the Union TC Technical Committee 
 
 Acronyms 
 AFSTA African Seed Trade Association APSA Asia and Pacific Seed Association 
ARIPO African Regional Intellectual Property Organization 
ASIPI Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property 
ASIWA Alliance for Seed Indu stry in West Africa 
CGRFA Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture CIOPORA International Community of Breeders of  Asexually Reproduced Ornamental and Fruit 
Varieties 
CPVO Community Plant Variety Office of the European Union EAPVP Forum East Asia Plant Variety Protection Forum 
FAO Food and Agriculture Organi zation of the United Nations 
ICNP Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Co mmittee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access 
and Benefit-sharing 
IGC WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, 
Traditional Knowledge and Folklore 
ISF International Seed Federation 
ISTA International Seed Testing Association 
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency KOICA Korea International Cooperation Agency 
KSVS Korea Seed and Variety Service 
NCSS National Center for Seeds and Seedlings (Japan) OAPI African Intellectual Property Organization 
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development 
OEPM Spanish Patent and Trademark Office 
QUT Queensland University of Technology 
SAA Seed Association of the Americas TRIPS Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 
UNIGE University of Geneva 
WECARD West and Central African Council fo r Agricultural Research and Development 
WFO World Farmers' Organization 
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization 
WTO World Trade Organization  
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