44. Volume 15- Number 2 - IP Australia
44. Volume 15- Number 2 - IP Australia
44. Volume 15- Number 2 - IP Australia
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PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 2002 VOL <strong>15</strong> NO. 2<br />
Patent and Trade Mark Office<br />
Nicaragua 3<br />
Box 4<br />
Norway 2<br />
Washington DC 20231<br />
Panama 2<br />
Paraguay 2<br />
Phone: (1 703) 305 93 00<br />
Poland 2,5<br />
Fax: (1 703) 305 88 85<br />
URUGUAY<br />
Instituto Nacional de Semillas<br />
(INASE)<br />
Casilla de Correos 7731<br />
Pando<br />
90.000 Canelone<br />
Phone: (59 82) 288 7099<br />
Fax: ( 59 82) 288 7077<br />
e-mail: inasepre@adinet.com.uy<br />
Website: www.chasque.apc.org/inase<br />
________________________<br />
EUROPEAN UNION<br />
(for applications filed within the EU)<br />
Community Plant Variety Office<br />
P.O. Box 2141<br />
F-49021 Angers Cedex 02<br />
FRANCE<br />
Phone: ( 33 2) 41 25 64 32<br />
Fax: ( 33 2) 41 25 64 10<br />
Website: www.cpvo.eu.int<br />
CURRENT STATUS OF PLANT<br />
VARIETY PROTECTION<br />
LEGISLATURE IN UPOV<br />
MEMBER COUNTRIES<br />
Argentina 2<br />
<strong>Australia</strong> 3<br />
Austria 2,4<br />
Belgium 1,4<br />
Bolivia 2<br />
Brazil 2<br />
Bulgaria 3<br />
Canada 2<br />
Chile 2<br />
China 2<br />
Columbia 2<br />
Croatia 3<br />
Czech Republic 2<br />
Denmark 3,4<br />
Ecuador 2<br />
Estonia 3<br />
Finland 3,4<br />
France 2,4<br />
Germany 3,4<br />
Hungary 2<br />
Ireland 2,4<br />
Israel 3<br />
Italy 2,4<br />
Japan 3<br />
Kenya 2<br />
Kyrgyzstan 3<br />
Mexico 2<br />
Netherlands 3,4<br />
New Zealand 2<br />
Portugal 2,4<br />
Republic of Korea 3<br />
Republic of Moldova 3<br />
Romania 3<br />
Russian Federation 3<br />
Slovakia 2,5<br />
Slovenia 5<br />
South Africa 2,5<br />
Spain 1,4<br />
Sweden 3,4<br />
Switzerland 2<br />
Trinidad and Tobago 2<br />
Ukraine 2<br />
United Kingdom 3,4<br />
USA 3<br />
Uruguay 2<br />
(Total 50)<br />
1 Bound by the 1961 Act as amended by the<br />
Additional Act of 1972.<br />
2 Bound by the 1978 Act.<br />
3 Bound by the 1991 Act.<br />
4 Member of the European Community<br />
which has introduced a (supranational)<br />
Community plant variety rights system<br />
based upon the 1991 Act.<br />
5 Has already amended its law to conform<br />
to the 1991 Act; most other states are in<br />
the process of doing so.<br />
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