Plants: Disease Control
Commons · Question 49250 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 8 May 2025
Question
Asked by Zöe Franklin
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 1991 Act of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Convention (UPOV 91) on small farmin
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 8 May 2025
The UK is a contracting party of the 1991 convention of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, known as UPOV. Under UPOV 1991, the UK has an effective plant variety protection system in place providing intellectual property...