Plant Breeders Right Protection Division, Plant Variety Value for cultivation and use testing Division and Field Trial Division are the structural units of Seed Control Department. Functions of the Department are laid down by the „Plant Varieties Protection Law” providing for the protection procedure of breeders’ right and „Seed Circulation Law”, prescribing the listing and de-listing of a variety from the Catalogue of Plant Varieties of Latvia.
Sofija Kalinina
Deputy Director of Seed Control Department
Address: Lielvardes street 36/38
Riga, LV – 1006
Ph.: +371-67365567
Fax: +371-67365571
e-mail: sofija.kalinina@vaad.gov.lv
Tasks of Plant Breeders Right Protection Division:
Accept and examine applications in respect of granting the breeder’s right;
Register
licences regarding transfer of the breeder’s right;
Organize distinctness, uniformity, stability (DUS) tests in respect of varieties proposed for granting of the Plant Breeder’s Right and inclusion into the Catalogue;
Maintain The Latvian State Register of Protected Plant Varieties.
Tasks of Plant Variety VCU Testing Division:
Activities connected with compilation and maintenance of Latvian Plant Variety Catalogue (hereinafter: Catalogue);
Organise, control the evaluation of commercial characteristics of varieties, summarisation of the obtained results;
Prepare results for discussion in expert groups of National Plant Variety Board to adopt decisions on listing varieties in the Catalogue.
Tasks of Field Trials Division:
Set up field trials;
Provide for the observation and recording of varieties during the vegetation period in compliance with plant variety evaluation methods.