The Crown’s Policy on the Plant Variety Sample Clauses

The Crown’s Policy on the Plant Variety. Rights Regime The plant variety rights regime provides a system under which people who breed a new variety of plant can claim exclusive rights to benefit from that new vari- ety In New Zealand, plant variety rights can be granted for any variety of plant except algae The formal requirements of the Plant Variety Rights Xxx 0000 are that the variety must be ‘new, distinct, homogenous, and stable’ It must also have an acceptable proposed name according to international guidelines 26 In this section, we set out the high-level policy decisions that Cabinet has recently made about the new plant variety rights regime, which we will discuss in more detail later Because these policy decisions are central to this inquiry, it is necessary to set out at some length the decisions made by the Cabinet’s Economic Development Committee in November 2019 The relevant Cabinet minute includes the following: 6 noted that one of the measures deemed necessary to meet New Zealand’s Treaty obligations (implementing the Wai 262 recommendation to introduce a power to refuse a grant of a PVR if kaitiaki relationships are affected) effectively introduces an additional condition for a PVR grant that is not permitted under UPOV; 7 agreed that New Zealand meet its obligations under the CPTPP by adopting sui generis regime to ‘give effect’ to UPOV 91 ;