Paragraph 11 F1

In this Schedule:

• “essentially biological process” means a process for the production of animals and plants which consists entirely of natural phenomena such as crossing and selection;

• “microbiological process” means any process involving or performed upon or resulting in microbiological material;

• “plant variety” means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, which grouping can be:

  1. (a)

     defined by the expression of the characteristics that results from a given genotype or combination of genotypes; and

  2. (b)

     distinguished from any other plant grouping by the expression of at least one of the said characteristics; and

  3. (c)

     considered as a unit with regard to its suitability for being propagated unchanged.