Recently, the Science and Technology Development Center of the China National Forestry and Grassland Administration (New Plant Variety Protection Office) together with the relevant government departments signed the China-EU Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Protection of New Varieties of Plants (2021-2025) with the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) of the European Union (EU) during an online meeting. The agreement is the phase II cooperation agreement, also an agreement on deepening the strategic cooperation, based on the Bilateral Cooperation Agreement (2018-2020) signed between the New Plant Variety Protection Office of the then State Forestry Bureau and the CPVO of the EU in 2017.

According to the agreement, China and the EU will carry out in-depth cooperation in improving the new plant variety protection capacity of China, optimizing the examination process of the new plant variety right application in China, conducting training on new plant variety protection, and exploring and sharing the implementation and law enforcement of the new plant variety right.

(Source: http://ipr.mofcom.gov.cn/index.shtml)