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.