Guidance: Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette, 2018

Updated: September 2018 gazette now available

The Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette is published monthly by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).

It provides information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 2001 (as amended).

Each edition of the Gazette includes:

  • appeals and tribunal decisions
  • applications for additions to the List and to become a maintainer
  • withdrawal of applications
  • proposed, approved and changed names
  • proposed additions and refusals
  • proposals and decisions on maintainers
  • proposed deletions and deletions
  • amendments to previous Gazettes

A full National List is published annually as a special edition of the Gazette. It specifies all varieties by species, currently on the UK National Lists and includes details of maintainers and agents.

Previous editions