Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2141 of 6 December 2016 amending Regulation (EC) No 1238/95 as regards the level of the annual fee and of the examination fees payable to the Community Plant Variety Office
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Regulation (EC) No 1238/95 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 9, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. The Office shall charge a holder of a Community plant variety right (‘the holder’) a fee of EUR 330 for each year of the duration of a Community plant variety right (‘annual fee’), as referred to in Article 113(2)(d) of the Basic Regulation.’; (2) Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 January 2017.
ANNEX ‘ANNEX I Fees relating to technical examination as referred to in Article 8 The fee to be paid for the technical examination of a variety pursuant to Article 8 shall be determined in accordance with the table: (in EUR) Cost group Fee Agricultural group 1 Potato 1 760 2 Oilseed rape 1 860 3 Grasses 2 430 4 Other agricultural species 1 530 Fruit group 5 Apple 3 050 6 Strawberry 2 920 7 Other fruit species 2 810 Ornamental group 8 Ornamental living greenhouse 2 020 9 Ornamental living outdoor 1 960 10 Ornamental non-living greenhouse 1 940 11 Ornamental non-living outdoor 1 730 12 Ornamental special 3 350 Vegetable group 13 Vegetable greenhouse 2 360 14 Vegetable outdoor 2 150 ’
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