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Hereby promulgated law on plant varieties, see. lovbekendtgørelse nr. 145 of 1. March 2001, with the changes imposed by section 6 of the law No. 967 by 4. December 2002, section 7 of the Act No. 1430 by 21. December 2005 and section 59 of law No. 1336 of 19. December 2008.
b) abroad in more than four years or, in the case of vines, trees and their rootstocks, in more than six years.
2) if material or harvested material of the variety produced from plants grown for the purpose of testing or processing, have been offered for sale, sold or disposed of to others, provided that this has been done without regard to the variety.
(3). Paragraph 2 shall not apply to varieties used for the production of a hybrid variety, if repeated use of the variety is necessary for production, and material of hybrid variety is sold or disposed of to others.
§ 2. Agriculture Minister may exceptionally approve, that a black who does not fulfil the conditions set out in article 1, paragraph 1, no. 4, protected, if it is found to have agricultural economic interest.
§ 3. Review of a variety for inclusion in the register shall be submitted to the Plant the plant News News the Board of variety owner. The Office owner does not have domicile or seat in a Member State of The European Union, must review submitted by a clerk with domicile or seat here in the country designated by the Office owner.
(2). The notifier shall Plant News Board, see. § 22, demonstrate its title to review the variety. If Notifier is a proxy for the Office owner, the notifier shall provide evidence of its authority to represent the Office owner in everything concerning the notification and registration.
(3). The Committee may ask the notifier the information deemed necessary for the examination of the notification, and may fix a time limit for doing so. The Board may further require material for use in testing, see. § 9, forwarded to the specified time points.
(4). By notification payment notification fee.
§ 4. The notification shall be entered in the Plant News Board's diary immediately after receipt and a copy of the notification shall be returned immediately to the notifier with Plant News Board on introduction. The Tribunal will publish a notice of the plant news notification.
(2). The diary is publicly available. However, this does not apply to information about hybrid varieties genealogical components and description thereof, if the notifier has requested that the information be treated as confidential.
§ 5. Plant News Board can delete a review of the diary, if the notifier does not appear with information or examination material, which the Board has required under section 3, paragraph 3, before the expiry of the time limit, the Tribunal has laid down.
§ 6. From the time of notification, the notifier has the right of first refusal to obtain protection of variety compared to others that are subsequently reviewed the same black for protection.
(2). At the request of the notifier can plant News Board attach the notification priority from the time of the first review of the variety in a Member State of the International Union for the protection of new varieties (UPOV), if the first notification is filed within the past 12 months. The request shall be made by notification in this country and must be accompanied by proof of the date of receipt of the first review.
§ 7. As soon as possible after the notification is introduced in the diary, Plant News Board make an initial examination of the variety can be considered to fulfil the conditions for protection. Find the Board after that examination, that the conditions for protection must be deemed to be fulfilled, the Board shall publish a notice regarding the notification with the call for possible interested in a certain period of time to submit objections to the registration of the variety.
§ 8. Plant News Board refer objections relating to the notifier's title to review the variety of treatment by the ordinary courts. The Committee shall be informed of the legal action, it must give notification shall record the fact.
(2). The Board decides on the basis of other objections to let notification be deleted from the diary and to cease the testing, publishes the notice.
§ 9. In a reported black can obtain protection, see. However, section 21, to Plant News Board ascertain whether the variety can be considered to fulfil the conditions, including whether it has the special properties that are mentioned in the notification. The Committee shall, as necessary, the testing of the variety to the finding thereof.
(2). The notifier may be charged a fee to cover the Board's costs of a trial.
§ 10. Can the variety shall be deemed to fulfil the conditions for protection, recorder Plant News Board variety in Plant news register under a varietal name, as it has been approved in accordance with the rules laid down by the Agriculture Minister.
(2). Plant News Board can refuse registration of a variety whose Office owner does not, before the expiry of a time limit to comply with the Board's invitation to propose a name for the variety in question or to propose a new name in cases where the Committee finds that the notified name does not meet the conditions for approval.
(3). Pending a trial, without prejudice. § 8, paragraph 1, it should be note that effect in Plant News Register.
§ 11. The plant variety must be designated with the authenticated name of the variety. This shall also apply after the termination of protection.
(2). It is permissible to use an additional term for the plant variety in relation to the varietal name.
(3). After the Office owner's request can plant news in special cases the Committee may allow the plant variety shall be assigned a different name than that originally approved.
(4). Agriculture Minister lays down provisions concerning the naming of plants.
§ 12. At the same time as the publication of the registration shall Plant News Board a letter issued to the notifier protection against payment of a registration fee. Letter of protection has a validity of one year, and the validity can be extended for one year at a time for up to 25 years, however, in the case of varieties of potatoes for up to 30 years from the date of issuance of the letter of protection referred to in article 6. However, article 21, paragraph 1.
(2). Extension of the validity of the letter of protection shall be effected by the deposit of an annual registration fee to Plant News Board.
(3). Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the Agriculture Minister, to lay down rules on the validity of the letter of protection for varieties of specified species and Genera can be extended for up to 30 years.
§ 13. Plant News Board can conduct a verification to ensure that the Office owner maintains the plant variety right enough.
(2). The Office owner must make appropriate plant material available to Plant News Board for control within the time limits, the Tribunal shall determine.
4) the annual registration fee is not paid.
2) to propose a new name for the variety of cases in which the Committee subsequently noted that the approved name does not comply with the provisions laid down by the Agriculture Minister to that effect.
(3). Deletion happens 2 months after the owner of the Office has received notification of the Board's decision, unless the Office news Plant owner before the expiry of this time-limit shall bring the matter before the Court.
§ 15. A plant variety is deleted by Plant News Register, it cannot again be entered in the register. The Board publishes a news release about planting the deletion and the reasons for doing so.
2) offered for sale, sold, transferred or held with a view to sale or transfer.
(2). Agriculture Minister may lay down rules to the effect that also the purely for professional use in own holding propagates plants of specified species, must pay a license fee to the owner of the Office.
(3). The professionally propagates a plant variety or sell propagating material thereof, the Office must notify the owner with the information necessary for the calculation and collection of the licence fee.
(c)) can only be produced by repeated application of the plant variety.
(5). Agriculture Minister may provide that paragraphs 1 to 3, subject to the conditions laid down in paragraph 4, no. 1, also apply to products produced from material of a plant variety or the proceeds thereof.
(6). The owner establishes the Office conditions, see. paragraph 1 may relate only to the use and supply as specified in paragraph 1, no. 1 and 2, as well as the license fee. Conditions shall be fair and equal for all producers.
§ 17. Plants can be freely used for test and selection work.
§ 19. The Office owner can only charge the fee for the use of a trademarked name, see additional section 11, paragraph 2, at the end of 25 years, respectively, 30 years, see. Article 12, paragraph 3, with effect from the day of issuance of the letter of agreement for plant variety protection, regardless of whether the registration is maintained throughout the period.
(2). Paragraph 12) shall not apply to propagating material of a variety that is protected in this country, if the reproductive material originates in a State that does not have the protected variety.
§ 20. Agriculture Minister considers it necessary in order to ensure a plant news dissemination or to counteract a significant deterioration in terms of industry, the Minister may order the owner of the variety to give one or more persons permission for commercial multiplication and sale of reproductive material of the plant variety right and within a reasonable time either themselves or through others to accommodate orders of suitable material. The provisions of section 16 apply accordingly.
(2). A patent holder cannot acquire or exploit a patented invention without infringing a prior PBR, may apply for a compulsory licence for non-exclusive use of the plant variety, if the compulsory licence is necessary for the exploitation of the invention, to be patentable, and against payment of an appropriate royalty. A compulsory licence may be granted only if the proprietor of the patent proves that in vain is contacted the Office owner in order to obtain the license, and that the invention represents a significant technical progress of considerable economic significance in relation to the plant variety.
(3). Have a variety owner after the row got a compulsory licence to exploit a patented invention, the patentee has the right to on reasonable terms to achieve mutual license for the exploitation of the plant variety.
§ 21. The conditions referred to in section 16, paragraph 1, may be invoked by the Office owner in the period between the notification of a variety to his inclusion in the Plant News Register (notification period), if the owner gives notice to the Plant variety News Board. The protection period in section 12 shall be calculated from the date of the message, in this case the introduction of Plant News Board's diary. The provisions of §§ 11 and 20 shall apply mutatis mutandis in the notification period.
(2). Licence fees levied in the notification period, the manufacturer is inserted into a blocked account in a financial institution for the benefit of the owner of the variety. The amount shall be released if the variety shall be recorded in the register of plant news. Otherwise, the deposited amount shall be refunded to the producer including. accrued interest.
(3). Pulled the notification of a black back, or rejected the variety from the inclusion in the register, the variety of plant news freely used by multiplication. A manufacturer that in the notification period has used the variety by reproduction, must be treated in the same way as by the use of an unprotected black.
§ 22. The Minister of food, agriculture and fisheries should establish a Board, Committee, to manage the plant news provisions in Chapter 2 and 3.
(2). The Minister shall determine the composition and function of the Board in the Board's rules of procedure.
§ 23. Plant news decisions after chapter 2 and 3 cannot be brought before another administrative authority.
§ 24. The Office owner does not have domicile or seat here in the country, documents, etc. can be made to an administrative officer with domicile or seat in this country. In other cases, documents, etc. is done in accordance with the provisions of section 159 of the Act on the Court's care.
Criminal and civil provisions, etc.
section 26. Whoever violates section 16 (1), (3) or (4), be punished by a fine. Violation of the above provisions is subject to a private reprimand.
2) fails to comply with orders issued pursuant to section 20.
(3). In regulations issued under section 11, paragraph 4, and section 16, (2) and (5) can be fixed penalty of fines for violation of the provisions of the legislation. Violation of requirements established pursuant to section 16 (2) and (5) shall be subject to the private reprimand.
5) changed in the specified manner.
(2). Paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the materials, utensils etc., who primarily has been used for illegal exploitation of a plant variety.
3) an equitable remuneration is sufficient.
section 26 (c). In a judgment, by which anyone convicted under section 26 (a) or section 26 (b), the Court may on request decide that the judgment must be published in its entirety or in part.
section 26 d. Provisions of § § 26 a-26 c shall apply mutatis mutandis for infringement of plant breeder, which is protected in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) 2100/94 of 27. July 1994 on Community plant variety rights.
§ 27. The law shall enter into force on the 1. January 1988.
(2). At the same time repealed Act No. 205 of 16. June 1962 on the protection of breeder's rights for plants.
(3). Provisions adopted in accordance with the law referred to in paragraph 2 shall remain in force until they are repealed by the agricultural and fisheries. Violation of the provisions is punishable by a fine.
2) registered plant news, where the entry into force of the Act on the Office owner after exploiting the access to an extended period of protection referred to in article 12.
The law shall enter into force on the 1. January 1995.
(1). The law shall enter into force on the 1. January 1996.
(2). section 1, paragraph 3, as amended by this Act, section 1, no. 2, shall not apply to varieties which are notified to the protection at the latest by 31 March. December 1995.
(3). section 16, paragraph 4, nr. 2, as amended by this Act, section 1, no. 11, applies only to varieties that are not before the 1. January 1996 have been handed over to an official body for statutory purposes, or with the owner's permission and the Office for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the variety has been offered for sale, sold or otherwise disposed of.
The law shall enter into force on the 30. July 2000.
(2). § § 1-4 may, by Royal Decree is implemented in these regions with the variances, as the special Faroese and Greenlandic conditions warrant.
The law shall enter into force on the 1. January 2003.
The law will enter into force on 31 December 1996. January 2006.
(2). sections 1-3 and 5 may, by Royal Decree in whole or in part is implemented in these regions with the variances, as the special Faroese and Greenlandic conditions warrant.
(3). § 6 may by Royal Decree in whole or in part be put into force for Greenland of the variances, as the special Greenlandic conditions warrant.
(2). Tax Minister shall determine the time of the entry into force of § 9, § 99, no. 3, § 103, § 109, no. 4 and 5, § 117, no. 4, § 118, no. 1, section 136, nr. 1, 3 and 4, section 144, no. 1 and 2, § 148, no. 2 and section 149, nr. 2. Ministry of food, agriculture and fisheries, the 12. March 2009 Eva Kjer Hansen/Dorthe Nielsen Official notes 1) Act contains provisions implementing parts of the European Parliament and Council Directive 98/44/EC of 6 May 2003. July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (the official journal of the European communities 1998 No. L 213, p. 13) and provisions implementing parts of a European Parliament and Council Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004. April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (Official Journal of the European Union 2004 nr. L 195, p. 15).
2) of law No. 967 by 4. December 2002 is numbering of paragraphs 2 and 3 of section 19 amended paragraphs 1 and 2, without that there has been consistency fix for the reference in the former paragraph 3 to the former paragraph 2.
3) By law No. 1086 by 20. December 1995, paragraph 3, paragraph 2, of the basic regulation. Note 3.
4) Whereby § 12 (1), (2). paragraph is replaced by the following.
5) Whereby § 1, paragraph 1, is replaced by the following, section 1, paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be added to § 2 shall be replaced by the following, section 3 (1), (2). paragraph, modified, § 9, § 10, is replaced by paragraph 1, is replaced by the following, section 10, paragraph 2 shall be added to article 12, paragraph 3 shall be added to article 14, paragraph 2, shall be replaced by article 14, paragraph 3, be amended, § 16 is replaced by the following, section 17 is replaced by the following, section 18 is repealed, section 19, paragraph 1, shall be repealed, section 19, paragraphs 2 to 4, there are paragraphs 1-3, be amended, section 20 is replaced by the following, section 21 (1) be amended, in section 22 is replaced by the following, section 25 is replaced by the following, section 26 (1) be amended, in section 26 (2). 2, is replaced by the following and section 26, paragraph 3, be amended.
6) Whereby section 20, paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be replaced by the following.
7) Whereby section 19 (1) and (2) and (3) were (1) and (2) section 20 (1) be amended, section 22 is replaced by the following, section 23 is amended and section 26 (2). 2 change.
8) Whereby the footnote to the title of the Act is replaced by the following and § § 26 (a) – 26 (d) is inserted.
9) Whereby section 25 (2) is repealed.

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