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UPOV Council to formalise access to documents; civil society seeks greater participation
Geneva, Switzerland
October 29, 2012
By Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch
Members of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) meet this week for their annual Council and a series of preparatory meetings. Meanwhile, civil society keeps pushing for greater participation.
The UPOV Administrative and Legal Committee (CAJ) was scheduled to meet early today, followed by the Administrative and Legal Committee Advisory Group (CAJ-AG) into tomorrow. The Consultative Committee will then meet on 31 October, to prepare for the 46th ordinary session of the Council, the governing body of UPOV, to take place on 1 November.
One important item on the agenda [pdf] is the election of a new president and vice-president of the Council. The current UPOV president is Keun-Jin Choi, director of the Variety Testing Division in the Seed & Variety Service of the Korean Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The vice-president is Kitisri Sukhapinda, attorney advisor in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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