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IP/N/1/CUB/P/4   
5 June 2019  
(19-3876)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects  
of Intellectual Property Rights  Original: Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS  AND REGULATIONS  UNDER  
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
CUBA: RESOLUTION ESTABLISH ING THE PROCEDURE FO R THE TECHNICAL EXAM INATION OF 
PLANT VARIETIES PROV IDED FOR IN DECREE -LAW NO.  291 ON "PLANT VARIET Y PROTECTION"  
Notifying Member  CUBA 
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Resolución que establece el procedimiento para realizar el examen técnico 
de las variedades vegetales que establece el Decreto -Ley No. 291 "De 
protección de las variedades vegetales " (Resolution establishing the 
procedure for the technical examination of plant varieties provided for in 
Decree -Law No. 291 on "plant variety protection")  
Subject matter  Patents (including plant variety protection)  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text  https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/IP/CUB/19_3075_00_s.pdf  
Notification status  [X] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  Not applicable  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
The notified  Resolution supplements Decree -Law No. 291 on "plant variety protection"  dated 
21 November  2011. It establishes the procedure for the technical examination of plant varieties . 
 
Decree -Law No. 291 on "plant variety protection" was notified in  IP/N/1/CUB/P/1  on 
5 November  2012.  
Language(s) of 
notified legal text  Spanish  
Entry into force  10 August  2018 
Other date  Adoption: 29 June 2018 IP/N/1/CUB/9 • IP/N/1/CUB/P/4  
 
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Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  23 May 2019  
Other information  https://www.gacetaoficial.gob.cu/pdf/GOC -2018-EX40.pdf.rar  
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Oficina Cubana de la Propiedad Industrial , OCPI (Cuban Industrial Property 
Office)  
www.ocpi.cu  
Email: ocpi@ocpi.cu  
 
Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical 
"Alejandro de Humboldt"  ("Alejandro de Humboldt" Institute of Fundamental 
Research in Tropical Agriculture), Ministerio de la Agricultura  (Ministry of 
Agriculture)  
 