[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR97.100]

[Page 261]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER I--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE \1\ (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, 
       MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)
 
PART 97_PLANT VARIETY AND PROTECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 97.100  Examination of applications.

    (a) [Reserved]
    (b) Examinations of applications shall include a review of all 
available documents, publications, or other material relating to 
varieties of the species involved in the application, except that if 
there are fundamental defects in the application, as determined by the 
examiner, the examination may be limited to an identification of such 
defects and notification to the applicant of needed corrective action. 
However, matters of form or procedure need not, but may, be raised by an 
examiner until a variety is found to be new, distinct, uniform, and 
stable and entitled to protection.

[58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 60 FR 17189, Apr. 4, 1995]