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DROIT AGRICULTEUR [1 record]

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Record 1 2025-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Rural Law
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

Plants and plant varieties are protected in Canada under Plant Breeders Rights (PBR); not under patents. PBRs are considered by many to be a much weaker form of protection given the extent of the significant exemptions which have no counterpart in patent law. For example, under what is commonly called "farmer's privilege", a farmer can save the seeds from a previous year's crop and plant them in the following years.

CONT

The PVPA [Plant Variety Protection Act] provides that there are certain exceptions to infringement, the most well-known being the "farmer's exemption" [which] provides that it is not an act of infringement: for a person to save seed produced by him from seed obtained or descended from seed obtained, by authority of the owner of the variety for seeding purposes and use such saved seed in the production of a crop for use on his farm, or for sale ... for other than reproductive purposes ...

Key term(s)
  • farmer privilege
  • farmer exemption

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Droit rural
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

Le privilège de l'agriculteur est le droit qu'a ce dernier de conserver du matériel végétal comme semences pour les saisons subséquentes (compétition entre les semences conservées par l'agriculteur et les semences fournies par les sélectionneurs), ce qui s'avérerait généralement une violation dans le cas du matériel breveté.

OBS

droit de l'agriculteur; privilège de l'agriculteur : désisnations extraites du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduites avec l'autorisation de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión y política agrícola
  • Derecho agrario
  • Producción vegetal
CONT

El privilegio del agricultor [...] le permite el libre acceso a los recursos genéticos contenidos en las variedades vegetales protegidas, para replantar sus fincas con una parte de las semillas cosechadas durante el año precedente.

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