1.The following ‘other particulars’ referred to in Article 87(3) of the basic Regulation shall be entered in the Register of Applications for Community Plant Variety Rights:
(a)date of publication where such publication is a relevant event for the computation of time limits;
(b)any objection, together with its date, the name and address of the objector and those of his procedural representative;
(c)priority data (date and State of the earlier application);
(d)any institution of actions in respect of claims referred to in Article 98(4) and Article 99 of the basic Regulation as to entitlement to the Community plant variety right, and the final decision in, or of any other termination of, any such action.
2.The following ‘other particulars’ referred to in Article 87(3) of the basic Regulation shall be entered in the Register of Community Plant Variety Rights, upon request:
(a)the giving of a Community plant variety right as a security or as the object of any other rights in rem; or
(b)any institution of actions in respect of claims referred to in Article 98(1) and (2) and Article 99 of the basic Regulation and relating to the Community plant variety right, and the final decision in, or of any other termination of, any such action.
3.The President of the Office shall decide upon the details of the entries to be made and may decide upon further particulars to be entered in the Registers for the purpose of the management of the Office.
The President of the Office shall determine the form of Registers. The Registers may be maintained in the form of an electronic database.
1.Any transfer of Community plant variety rights shall be entered in the Register of Community Plant Variety Rights on production of documentary evidence of the transfer, or of official documents confirming the transfer, or of such extracts from those documents as suffice to establish the transfer. The Office shall retain a copy of those pieces of documentary evidence in its files.
The President of the Office shall determine the form in and the conditions under which those pieces of documentary evidence are to be retained in the files of the Office.
2.The entry of a transfer may be refused only in the event of failure to comply with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 and in Article 23 of the basic Regulation.
3.Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply to any transfer of an entitlement to a Community plant variety right for which an application has been entered in the Register of Applications for Community Plant Variety Rights. The reference to the Register of Community Plant Variety Rights shall be understood as a reference to the Register of Applications for Community Plant Variety Rights.
Without prejudice to other provisions of the basic Regulation or of this Regulation, a request for an entry or a deletion of an entry in the Registers may be made by any interested person. The request shall be made in writing, accompanied by supporting documents.
1.Where a Community plant variety right applied for or granted is concerned by bankruptcy or like proceedings, an entry to this effect shall be made, free of charge, in the Register for Community Plant Variety Rights at the request of the competent national authority. This entry shall also be deleted at the request of the competent national authority, free of charge.
2.Paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the institution of actions in respect of claims referred to in Articles 98 and 99 of the basic Regulation and the final decision in, or of any other termination of, any such action.
3.Where varieties are identified respectively as initial and essentially derived, a request for entry by all the parties to proceedings may be made jointly or separately. In the event of a request from only one party to proceedings, the request shall be accompanied by sufficient documentary evidence of the actions referred to in Article 87(2)(h) of the basic Regulation to replace the request of the other party.
4.Where the entry of a contractual exclusive exploitation right or of a Community plant variety right given as security or as the subject of rights in rem is requested, such request shall be accompanied by sufficient documentary evidence.
1.The Registers shall be open for public inspection on the premises of the Office.
Access to the Registers and the documents held therein shall be granted under the same terms and conditions as apply to the access to documents held by the Office within the meaning of Article 84.
2.On-the-spot inspection of the Registers shall be free of charge.
The production and delivery of extracts from the Registers in any form that requires the processing or manipulating of data other than the mere reproduction of a document or parts thereof shall be subject to the payment of a fee.
3.The President of the Office may provide for public inspection of the Registers on the premises of national agencies, or sub-offices designated, pursuant to Article 30(4) of the basic Regulation.