State registration of a variety and state registration of rights to a variety is carried out in accordance with Art. 33 of the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Rights to Plant Varieties”.

If the variety applied for registration meets the requirements, there is an opinion of the Competent Authority on the approved name of the variety and the official fee is paid, then the state registration of the variety is carried out:

– for a variety registered in the EU and/or the USA – within 15 days from the date of sending the notification to the applicant about the positive results of the consideration of the application for the variety;

– for a variety that is submitted for the first time for registration in Ukraine – within 15 days from the date of receiving an expert opinion (expert opinion – documented results of the qualification examination of the variety. Time limits for conducting the qualification examination – from 2 years after providing seeds for examination and payment of the relevant fees (with the exception of the qualification examination, which is conducted according to the applicant’s data)).

If the declared variety does not meet the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Rights to Plant Varieties”, the Competent Authority shall make a decision to refuse state registration of the variety and/or state registration of rights to the variety within 15 days after the expiration of the period established for submitting a motivated response to expert opinion in accordance with Article 27 of the said Law.