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Measures for Examination and Approval of Major Crop Varieties (issued by Order No. 4 of December 27, 2013, of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China), China

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Year of Version 2014 Dates Entry into force: February 1, 2014 Adopted: December 27, 2013 Type of Text Implementing Rules/Regulations Subject Matter Plant Variety Protection, IP Regulatory Body Notes The Measures are issued by Ministry of Agriculture pursuant to Article 15 of the Seed Law of the People's Republic of China to approve major crop varieties and apply to the major crop variety registrations in China. The term “major crops” used in the Measure refers to the crops specified in Article 74(3) of the Seed Law.

The Measures are divided into 7 chapters and 43 articles: Chapter I (Articles 1-3) on general provisions; Chapter II (Articles 4-8) on the National Variety Registration Committee; Chapter III (Articles 9-14) on application and acceptance of varieties; Chapter IV (Articles 15-24) on variety trials; Chapter V (Articles 25-35) on registration and announcement of registered varieties; Chapter VI (Articles 36-38) on variety withdraw from the Variety Registration Committee; and Chapter VII (Articles 39-41) on supervision and administration relating to variety trial, variety testing and administrative management.

Available Texts Main text(s) Main text(s) Chinese 主要农作物品种审定办法（2013年12月27日农业部令2013年第4号公布，自2014年2月1日起施行） PDF HTML
Legislation Relates to (2 text(s)) Relates to (2 text(s))
Regulations on Nomenclature of New Varieties of Agricultural Plants (promulgated by Order No. 2 of March 14, 2012, of the Ministry of Agriculture) (CN380)
Regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture on the Work of the Reexamination Board for New Varieties of Plants (CN285)

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