Explanatory note

This Scheme varies the Plant Breeders' Rights (Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers) Scheme 1969 by extending (in paragraph 2) the schedule of genera and species of which plant varieties may be the subject of plant breeders' rights under Part I of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 to cover all species of the genus Cornus L., thirty years being prescribed as the period during which the rights may be exercised. During that period infringements of the rights in the registered name of a variety of Cornus L. may be the subject of legal proceedings when committed in connection with any variety of Cornus.

This Scheme also provides (in paragraph 2) that a compulsory licence granted by the Controller of Plant Variety Rights in respect of a variety of Cornus shall not have effect during the period of five years from the date of the grant of rights in that variety.

Plant breeders' rights in respect of varieties of Cornus are not extended to the production or propagation of the varieties for the purpose of selling cut blooms, foliage or stems thereof.