In particular, the filing of an application for protection in any other country for any other variety shall be deemed to render that other variety a matter of common knowledge from the date of the application or registration, provided that the application leads to the grant of a breeder’s right or to the entering of said other variety in an official register of varieties, as the case may be. Such common knowledge may further be established by various references such as cultivation or commercialization already underway, the presence in a reference collection, or a precise description in a publication. 8. The variety shall be deemed to be uniform if, subject to the variation that may be expected from the particular features of its propagation, it is sufficiently uniform in its relevant characteristics. 9. The variety shall be deemed to be stable if its relevant characteristics remain unchanged after repeated propagation or, in the case of a particular cycle of propagation, at the end of each such cycle. 10. Any plant variety may give rise to the granting of a protection title known as a “plant breed certificate”. The right to protection of a variety shall belong to the first applicant, unless proved otherwise. 11. The breeder’s right may be requested by: — Moroccan natural persons or legal entities; — foreign natural persons or legal entities with their domicile or company head office in Morocco; — nationals of States and natural persons or legal entities with their domicile or company head office in the territory of the said States, where those States’ legislation grants Moroccans protection at least equivalent to that provided for in this Law. 12. Any breeder who has duly filed an application for the protection of a variety in a State which grants Moroccans protection at least equivalent to that conferred by this Law (“first application”) shall, for the purpose of filing an application for the grant of a breeder’s right for the same variety with the authority (“subsequent application”), enjoy a right of priority for a period of 12 months. This period shall be computed from the date of filing of the first application. The day of filing shall not be included in that period. 13. In order to benefit from the right of priority provided for in Article 12 above, the breeder shall, in the subsequent application, claim the priority of the first application. The competent authority may require the breeder to provide, within a period of three months as from the date of filing of the subsequent application, a copy of the documents which constitute the first application, certified to be a true copy by the authority with which that application was filed, and samples or any other evidence that the variety which is the subject matter of both applications is the same. The breeder shall be allowed a period of two years after the expiration of the period of priority or, where the first application is rejected or withdrawn, an appropriate time set by the competent authority after such rejection or withdrawal, in which to furnish any necessary information, document or material provided for by this Law, with a view to the examination provided for in Article 50 below. Events which occur during the time period provided for in Article 12 above, such as the filing of another application or the publication or use of the variety that is the subject of the