The Regulations Governing the Appointment or Entrustment to Conduct the Examination and Follow-up Testing of Plant Variety Characteristics Article 6

The examination organization shall perform plant characteristics examination or follow-up testing in accordance with the plant characteristics tables and test and examination methods prescribed by the central competent authority, and shall submit a characteristics examination report to the central competent authority within one month after completing an examination. With regard to materials required for plant characteristics examination and follow-up testing stipulated in the preceding Paragraph, central competent authority shall notify the plant variety right applicant or the holder of the plant variety right to provide such materials without compensation to the examination organization for examination within a specified time limit.