Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO)

As the home of the Community Plant Variety Office, Angers is the hub of the plant breeders' rights system in the European Community.

Opal is a varietal cultivar accepted under UEB 3264/2 by the Community Plant Variety Office of the European Union.

The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is an agency of the European Union, located in Angers, France.

Alternatively, plant breeders can make a single application for protection throughout the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) to the Community Plant Variety Office, which has offices in France.

The Variety Testing department performs the tests for Plant Breeders' Rights for a wide range of crops on behalf of the Board for Plant Varieties in the Netherlands and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) in France.

ESA represents the European seed industry via the European institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, Council of Ministers) as well as the EU's Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) and numerous European and international bodies and organisations.