Article 54 The plant variety certificate shall be issued by the Competent Office in accordance with the conditions set out by regulation. It shall be drawn up in the name of the holder of the application for a plant variety certificate. If the holder of the application is not the breeder, the name of the latter shall be included in the plant variety certificate. The plant variety certificate shall take effect as of the date of the application. Article 55 The certificate shall be entered in the National Register of Plant Variety Certificates. Article 56 The issue of a plant variety certificate shall be published in the Plant Variety Protection Bulletin within a period of three months as from the date of notification of issue made to the holder of the plant variety certificate. Article 57 As from the date of publication referred to in Article 56 above, any person may inspect the plant variety certificate as entered in the National Register of Plant Variety Certificates. The Competent Office shall keep the elements of the certificate application files relating to titles of protection, in the original or as a reproduction, until a period of five years has lapsed after the end of protection. The National Registers of Applications for Plant Variety Certificates and of Plant Variety Certificates shall be kept indefinitely. CHAPTER IX MISCELLANEOUS Article 58 The Competent Office shall keep a National Register of Applications for Plant Variety Certificates and a National Register of Plant Variety Certificates. Applications for plant variety certificates shall be entered in chronological order in the National Register of Applications for Plant Variety Certificates. Additional particulars or information relating to each application for a certificate, of which the list shall be laid down by regulation, shall also be entered in that Register.