{"id":69530,"date":"2025-10-18T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69530"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:38:06","slug":"international-union-for-the-protection-of-new-varieties-of-plants-upov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-union-for-the-protection-of-new-varieties-of-plants-upov\/","title":{"rendered":"International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report released by GRAIN documented how a growing number of FTAs compel countries to adopt plant variety protection standards set by the 1991 UPOV Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UPOV is an <\/span><b>intergovernmental organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> established in <\/span><b>1961 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to provide an effective system of <\/span><b>plant variety protection.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It administers the <\/span><b>UPOV Convention,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which provides a legal framework for plant variety protection implemented by its members.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Under this framework, breeders of <\/span><b>new plant varieties are granted an intellectual property right<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> known as <\/span><b>the breeder\u2019s right<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which incentivizes innovation in plant breeding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>UPOV Convention<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> entered into force in <\/span><b>1968 and was revised in 1972, 1978 and 1991,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> each time strengthening plant breeders\u2019 rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Member countries:<\/b> <b>80 members<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have become members of UPOV. (<\/span><b>India is not a member<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of this organization)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Headquarter: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geneva (Switzerland).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Governance of International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UPOV member countries hold annual meetings of <\/span><b>the UPOV Council,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a permanent body under the UPOV Convention.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other UPOV bodies include the <\/span><b>Consultative Committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Administrative and Legal Committee,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Technical Committee<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/agriculture\/trade-deals-weaponised-to-enforce-strict-seed-patents-warns-new-report#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is an intergovernmental organization established in 1961 to provide an effective system of plant variety protection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":69537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3318],"class_list":{"0":"post-69530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-international-union-for-the-protection-of-new-varieties-of-plants","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}