Process description
Service requests
E-mail
• Customer sends documents to pasts@vaad.gov.lv or to an official electronic address
• documents must be signed with a secure electronic signature
Mail
• Customer sends documents by mail
In person
• customer arrives at the State Plant Protection Service and submits documents
Documents to be submitted:
• a mandate (if the application is submitted by the authorised representative)
• in the case of varietal differences, uniformity and stability tests:
- Varietal Check Report
- a description of the variety issued by the institution which carried out the variety inspection or a certified copy of the variety description
• in the absence of a verification of varietal diversity, uniformity and stability - a technical questionnaire for the variety in accordance with regulatory enactments
• Requesting Conventional Priority - Registered Copy of Priority Date Approval Application
• if the breeder's rights are protected in another country, a copy of the first authorisation certificate for the granting of the breeder's rightsPayment of state fee
National fee must be paid before the service is received
EUR 61,18 according to Cabinet Regulation No. 173 of 13 March 2012, Regulations on State fee in the field of plant variety rights, paragraph 3 (see “Other information” - “Normative acts”).
State Fee Properties
Consignee: Treasury
Registration No 90000050138
Account No. LV37TREL1060160919900
Bank: Treasury
BIC: TRELLV22
Notes: Revenue classification code 9.1.9.9.
Objective: On the granting of breeder's rightsReceipt of services
Mail
• Customer receives notification regarding registration of the application or refusal of registration to the specified postal address
In person
• the customer arrives at the State Plant Protection Service and receives a statement regarding registration of the application or refusal of registration