Prolongation September 2025
This year, prolongation can be applied for vegetable and agricultural varieties that were listed in 2017. This also applies to vegetable varieties that were listed in 2004 and 2005.
The invitation will be sent in September
The Board for plant varieties will sent the invitation in September. From that day on, the prolongation module will be open.
Please note!
- The deadline for submitting an application for prolongation is December 31, 2025. On that day, the application fee for prolongation must be paid. Only then, applications can be processed.
- The maintainer of the variety is responsible for the prolongation of their varieties. We therefore ask the maintainer to carefully check which varieties are eligible for prolongation.
More information?
Visit our page about prolongation, or contact us at teamsupport@rasraad.nl.
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Gazette of the Board for plant varieties September 2026
The Gazette is the government publication sheet. The new Gazette is published every month.
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Prolongation 2026
This year prolongation of registration can be applied for varieties of vegetable and agricultural species which have been registered in 2018. This also applies to all vegetable varieties which have been registered in 1993 until 2003.
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Harmonization of Technical Questionnaires (TQs)
The Board for plant varieties has been working with CPVO for some time on the harmonization of Technical Questionnaires (TQs). The objective is to make as many CPVO and the Board for plant varieties TQs as possible identical on a one-to-one basis. This harmonisation will make it easier for applicants to submit either a national application or a CPVO application, as the information can simply be copied from one application to the other. Recently, a number of additional TQs have been harmonized.