Unión Europea

Granada

Patentes (incluida la protección de variedades vegetales)

28. Please describe how micro-organisms, non-essentially biological processes, microbiological processes and plant varieties are protected in your legislation. Please explain, in this respect, the relevant sections of your legislation.

There is no provision in the legislation currently in force that specifically addresses the protection of micro-organisms, non-essentially biological processes, microbiological processes and plant varieties. However, the present draft Plant Variety Act (due to be tabled in 2010) addresses the protection of plant varieties in Sections 5 to 9 (Part II).