News

01/10/2024

The proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the production and making available on the market of plant reproductive material in the Union.

01/10/2024

Farmer's privilege new

28/09/2024

New Report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources on its second meeting and next COP 16 in Cali, Colombia

12/07/2023

The European Commission releases a regulatory proposal for plants and new genomic techniques

01/12/2022

Impact of Community Plant Variety Rights in the EU. EUIPO report data April 2022

28/11/2022

Use of genetic resources in plant breeding: United Nations Convention on Diversity (COP15), conclusions of the EU Council

12/05/2021

Researchers, companies and legislators ask for an urgent change in the EU legislation on Plant Genomic Techniques in a symposium organized by HARNESSTOM. 

10/03/2021

HARNESSTOM at the International Meeting on “CHALLENGES IN THE AGROFOOD SECTOR: COMPETENCE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY “ 

20/01/2021

New Guidance document on the scope of application and core obligations of Regulation (EU) No 511/2014 on the compliance measures for users from the Nagoya Protocol.

31/10/2020

The EPO rejects the patentability of plants and animals produced by essentially biological processes but are the doors open to the patentability of products (plant varieties) obtained by processes other than essentially biological?

31/10/2020

Nadorcott case: judgement of the Spanish Supreme Court Nº 282/2020 published on June the 11^th, 2020 follows the judgement of the CJEU on December the 19^th, 2019, and reduce the protection scope of plant varieties rights fixed by the second instance courts.

31/10/2020

Resolution about the capacity of requesting information from the official organizations on the use of certain plant varieties in order to apply the agricultural exemption.