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Plant Breeder's Rights Fees
The basic fees are the Application, Examination, Certificate and Annual fees.
The Application Fee must accompany the Part 1 application at the time of lodgement. It covers an initial 'examination for acceptance', the issue of a letter of acceptance, and twelve months of provisional protection.
Applicants have twelve months from the date of acceptance to pay the Examination
Fee (the time limit to pay examination fees on imported varieties can
be deferred for a maximum of 12 months after the variety has been released from
quarantine; contact the PBR Office for further details). The examination fee
pays for the assessment of the description, the publication of a description
and photograph of the new variety in Plant Varieties Journal, the field
examination, if any, and any other enquiries necessary to establish eligibility
for Plant Breeders Rights. Examination of the application, including field examination
and publication of the description and photograph, will not commence until the
examination fee has been received.
After the description has been published, successful applicants will be asked
to pay the Certificate fee. This cover the final examination
of all details, the production of certificate and copy of the variety description
in the PBR register. Those applicants are granted Plant Breeders Rights and
receive a Certificate.
An Annual fee is payable each year on the anniversary of the granting of the
right. The annual fee must be paid to maintain the grant.
Please note that these fees are subject to change.
GST does not apply to these statutory fees under Division 81 of the GST
Act 1999.
The fees payable are:
| | Fee Type | $ | | Application | 300 | | Examination - single application | 1400 | | Examination - application based on overseas test data | 1400 | | Examination - multiple application rate applicable only to 2 of more varieties of the same species tested at the same site and when applications and descriptions are lodged simultaneously by the same applicant and QP and examined simultaneously | 1200 |
| Examination- at an authorised Centralised Testing Centre when
5 or more candidate varieties of the same genus are tested simultaneously
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800 | | Certificate - (application received prior to 1 January 1995 under PVR) | 250 | | Certificate - (application received after 1 January 1995 under PBR) | 300 | | Annual | 300 |
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