Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49250

Plants: Disease Control

Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Zöe Franklin

Liberal DemocratGuildford

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

Daniel Zeichner
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...

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