PRESS RELEASE
UPOV Press Release 134
November 3, 2021
Ghana accedes to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Ghana deposited its instrument of accession to the UPOV Convention1 on November 3, 2021, and will
become the seventy-eighth member of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of
Plants (UPOV) on December 3, 2021.
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Plans for the 21st AFSTA annual congress due from 1st to 4thMarch 2021 in Marrakech, Morocco are complete. The President of the Moroccan Seed Association (FNIS), Mr. Ahmed Ouayach, said that they are ready to welcome the delegates to the ocher city.Early bird registration will open by the end of November 2020 until 31st January 2021.
The passage of the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Bill by the 7th Parliament of the Fourth Republic on November 4, 2020, followed by the President assenting to the bill on 29th December, 2020, by far, constituted a landmark achievement in the country’s bid to harness the intellectual abilities of its citizenry.