[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: 7CFR97.6]

[Page 255]
 
                          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. 97.6  Application for certificate.

    (a) An application for a plant variety protection certificate shall 
be signed by, or on behalf, of the applicant.
    (b) The application shall state the full name, including the full 
first name and the middle initial or name, if any, and the capacity of 
the person executing it.
    (c) The fees for filing an application, and search or examination, 
shall be submitted with the application in accordance with Sec. Sec. 
97.175 through 97.178.
    (d) The applicant shall submit with the application:
    (1) A declaration that at least 3,000 seeds of the viable basic seed 
required to reproduce the variety will be deposited in a public 
depository approved by the Commissioner and will be maintained for the 
duration of the certificate; or
    (2) With the application for a tuber propagated variety, a 
declaration that a viable cell culture will be deposited in a public 
depository approved by the Commissioner and will be maintained for the 
duration of the certificate; or
    (3) With the application for a hybrid from self-incompatible 
parents, a declaration that a plot of vegetative material for each 
parent will be established in a public depository approved by the 
Commissioner and will be maintained for the duration of the certificate.

[58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 60 FR 17189, Apr. 4, 1995; 61 
FR 248, Jan. 4, 1996; 70 FR 28785, May 19, 2005; 70 FR 54611, Sept. 19, 
2005]