EU Examinations Offices

  • Agricultural Research Center
  • APHA (Animal & Plant Health Agency)
  • BAES (Bundesamt für Ernährungssicherheit)
  • Bundessortenamt
  • COBORU
  • CRA-W (Centre Wallon de Recherches Agronomiques)
  • CREA-FRU (Centro di Ricerca per la Frutticoltura)
  • CREA-SCS (Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura)
  • CREA-VIT (Centro di Ricerca per la Vicicoltura)
  • Croatian Centre for Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs
  • DAFM (Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine)
  • DGAV (Direção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária)
  • EVIRA (Finnish Food Safety Authority)
  • GEVES (Groupe d’étude et de contrôle des variétés et des semences)
  • IASAS (Executive Agency for Variety Testing, Field Inspection and Seed Control)
  • ILVO (Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek eenheid Plant)
  • Ministry of Rural Development and Food
  • Naktuinbouw
  • NEBIH (National Food Chain Safety Office)
  • NIAB
  • OEVV (Oficina Española de Variedades Vegetales)
  • Swedish Board of Agriculture
  • TystofteFoundation
  • UKSUP (Central Controlling and Testing Institute in Agriculture of Slovakia)
  • UKZUZ (Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture)
  • University of Aarhus – Aarslev

Non EU examinations offices

The CPVO has cooperation with the following non EU Examination Offices either for taking over DUS reports for some specific species or for organising technical examinations for particular species for which no EU examination office is available.

  • ARO (The Agriculture Research Organisation)
  • DAFF (Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries)
  • MAFF (The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Seeds & Seedlings)
  • PVR (The Plant Variety Rights Office of New Zealand)
  • SNICS (The National Seed Inspection and Certification Service)
  • Taiwan Intellectual Property Office
  • The Plant Breeders Rights Office

International Organisations

  • AIPH (International Association of Horticultural Producers)
  • CIOPORA (International community of breeders of asexually reproduced ornamental and fruit-tree varieties)
  • ESA (European Seed Association)
  • ISF (International Seed Federation)
  • ISHS (International Society of Horticultural Science)
  • ISTA (International Seed Testing Association)
  • UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants)

EU institutions

  • EUROPA (European Commission)
  • European Agencies
  • Health & Consumer Protection DG (European Commission)