TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of EAVTFI&SC

АPPLICATION ...... (Ref. No., to be filled in by EAVTFI&SC)

CONTRACT No...... ( to be filled in by EAVTFI&SC)

Regarding: Official Testing of plant varieties  For acceptance and entering in List А and List B of the Official Variety List

 For granting of Plant Breeders’ Rights of variety and breeds/ hybrids silk worm

1. Applicant(s) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (name, address of its seat or establishment, phone No., fax No., e-mail) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (correspondence address (if different from the one indicated above ))

2. Breeder(s) of the variety:  Applicant(s)  Person(s) if different from the Applicant:

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (name(s), address(-es), phone No., fax No., e-mail) If the Breeder(s) is(are) not the Applicant(s), how was the variety transferred to the Applicant(s):  Contract  Succession  Other (specify)

Remark: Please provide relevant documentary evidence in original or officially certified form. 3. Scientific name of the taxon: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. Denomination of the variety:  Provisional designation (breeder’s reference) ......  Permanent  Code ......  Denomination ......

5. Breeding scheme: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……….….. (describe how the variety was bred)

Formula: ...... (to be indicated)

1 6. The denomination of the variety has been applied for registration or registered as a trade mark in the EU, in a Member of UPOV or through WIPO  Yes

 No If the answer is ‘Yes’ the relevant columns in the table below must be completed: EU Member State and/or Date of application: Date of registration: Registration No.: UPOV Member State/ or through WIPO

7. Information of all other applications made in a Member State of the European Union and/or in a Member of the UPOV

Member State(s) of the EU and/or of the UPOV ……………………………………………….… (name of the country)

 Plant Variety Rights

 Official Variety List  Registration, year ......  In process of registration, year ......  Not subject to registration yet Authority: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Application No...... Stage:  Permanent denomination of the variety: ………………………………………………………………………  Provisional designation (breeder’s reference): ………………………………………….…………………….

If the variety applied for testing with the purpose of acceptance and entering in the Official Variety List of Republic of Bulgaria is a parent line of a hybrid variety and has been examined in a EU Member State and/or in a Member of the UPOV in connection with the examination of the hybrid variety, please indicate the denomination of the hybrid variety and the country, where the testing has been carried out: ......

8. Priority right, in respect of the earliest application for a property right filed: in country: ...... on date: (day, month and year of application) ......

9. Has the variety been sold or otherwise exploited:  Yes Date - …...... Country - ...... Variety denomination: ………………...... ( D / M / Y) (EU Member State or third country)  No

When "Yes", please indicate the country of the first disposal (marketing) of the variety and the designation used. 2 10. For applied hybrid varieties: (indicate information of the parent components) а) Information of all other applications related to the parent component, made in a Member State of the EU or in a Member of the UPOV

…………………..……………….……………..….. ………………………………………………………. (name of the country) (name of the country)

 Plant Variety Rights  Plant Variety Rights

 Official Variety List  Official Variety List  Registration, year ......  Registration, year ......  In process of registration, year ......  In process of registration, year ......  Not subject to registration yet  Not subject to registration yet Authority: …………………………………………. Authority: …………….…………….………………. Application No...... Application No...... Period of testing: Period of testing:  Permanent denomination of the variety:  Permanent denomination of the variety: ……………………………………………………... ………………………………………………………  Provisional designation (breeder’s reference)  Provisional designation (breeder’s reference) ………………………………………………..…… ……………………..……………………….……… b) Is the parent component used for breeding of other hybrid varieties:  Yes  No If ‘Yes’, please indicate: Denomination of the parent Denomination of the hybrid component: variety: ......

11. Is the variety a Genetically Modified Organism:  Yes  No

12. Variety maintenance (indicate natural and/or legal person/s and place, where the variety is maintained): ......

13. Is the variety entered in: Common European Catalogue  Yes, year - …………

 No National Catalogue of the EU Member State  Yes, year - ...... country ...... year - ...... country ...... year - ...... country ......

 No

3 14. Description of the main characteristics of the variety, in accordance with approved methods for value for cultivation and use (groups of maturity and quality, qualitative characteristic, functional direction, specific requirements for growing and harvesting, resistance to harmful organisms and plant protection products, etc.):

......

The application has to be submitted for each variety. - In case of occurrence of changes in the circumstances (specified under points 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13) the Applicant is obliged to notify the Executive Agency for Variety Testing, Field Inspection and Seed Control within one month term.

Place: Date: Applicant: (Signature and Stamp)

4