Plant variety certificates shall be entered in the National Register of Plant Variety
Certificates in their order of issue.
The list of additional particulars or acts to be entered in that Register shall be laid down
by regulation.
The courts shall address to the Competent Office a full and gratuitous copy, for entry of
the additional notices subsequent to a court decision, of those decisions that concern the
existence, scope and exercise of rights deriving from the protection afforded by this Law.
Article 59
The Office shall publish a “Plant Variety Protection Bulletin.”
The frequency and content of the Bulletin shall be laid down by regulation. Acts
concerning grant of a certificate, transfer of ownership, grant of a right of exploitation or a
pledge, in relation to a plant variety certificate, cancellation of a certificate, surrender in
whole or in part of the rights under a certificate may only be invoked against other persons if
they have been duly published in the Plant Variety Protection Bulletin.
Article 60
An order issued in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 17 of
the Basic Finance Law promulgated by Dahir No. 1-72-260 of 9 Sha’ban 1392
(September 18, 1972) shall lay down the fees for services rendered by the State in application
of this Law and its implementing texts.
CHAPTER X
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Article 61
If a plant variety certificate has been sought either for a plant variety appropriated from
the person who has bred or discovered and developed the variety, or his successors in title, or
in violation of a statutory or contractual obligation, the injured person may claim ownership
of the application for the certificate or of the plant variety certificate.
Proceedings shall be statute-barred three years after the publication of the issue of the
certificate.
However, in the event of bad faith at the time of grant or of acquisition of the
certificate, the time limit shall be of three years after the expiry of such certificate.
As from the day on which a person has furnished proof of having instituted
proceedings, the owner of the application for a certificate or of a certificate may not withdraw
such application or renounce such certificate in whole or in part except with the written
consent of the person who has instituted proceedings.