S.I. No. 682/2011 - Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Act 1980 (Ratification of UPOV) Order 2011.

1. This Order may be cited as the Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Act 1980 (Ratification of UPOV) Order 2011.

2. Any country that is a member of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants shall be a Contracting Party for the purposes of the Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Acts 1980 and 1998.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

6 December 2011.

SIMON COVENEY,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Order provides for the ratification by Ireland of the 1991 revision of the UPOV Agreement on Plant Variety Rights.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

30

th December

, 2011.

I, SIMON COVENEY, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 (as amended by

section 3

of the

Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Act 1998

(No. 41. of 1998)) of the

Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Act 1980

(No. 24 of 1980) hereby order as follows