Bundessortenamt

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Bundessortenamt
- BSA -

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position Higher federal authority
Supervisory authority Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
founding 1953
Headquarters Hanover
Authority management President: Elmar Pfülb
Servants 269 ​​plus 10 trainees
Budget volume Budget expenditure 2018: € 22.5 million
Web presence www.bundessortenamt.de
Official building in Hanover

The Bundessortenamt ( BSA ), as a plant variety office, is an independent German higher federal authority in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture . The office has been based in Hanover since 1980 (previously in Rethmar ) and currently still maintains seven (previously 12) test centers in Germany. It was founded in 1953 as part of the Seed Act and replaced the Variety Office for Useful Plants , which was founded in Frankfurt am Main in April 1948 . The BSA has 580 hectares of open-air cultivation area and 7000 m² of greenhouse area. A total of around 16,500 different varieties were grown in 2012/13.

The BSA is responsible for the approval of plant varieties (prerequisite for placing seeds on the market ) and plant variety protection , i.e. the legal protection of new plant varieties ("protection of intellectual property"), insofar as the latter is based on national law and not under European Union law he follows; the proportion of nationally protected varieties is now well below 10%. The legal and examination bases for the work of the Federal Plant Variety Office are the Seed Traffic Act and the Plant Variety Protection Act .

organization

The President heads the Bundessortenamt and represents it externally. Furthermore, the Office in three divided sections , which in presentations are divided.

  • President: Elmar Pfülb
    • Section P 1: National and international variety and seed issues, coordination office for the BMEL
    • Section P 2: Communication, Biopatent Monitoring, Quality Management
  • Department 1: Central Department
  • Department 2: Plant Variety Licensing, Plant Variety Protection, Genetic Resources
  • Department 3: Examination Execution

See also

literature

  • Frank Hinrichs: What for a Bundessortenamt? In: Verwaltungsrundschau (VR). Journal for administration in practice and science . 52nd volume , 2006, ISSN  0342-5592 , pp. 89-92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Budget 2020 - Section 10 - Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Federal Ministry of Finance, accessed on August 27, 2020 (overview of positions / vacancies: page 184; trainees: page 168).
  2. ↑ Test centers of the Bundessortenamt
  3. ↑ 6. Draft of a law on plant variety protection and seeds of cultivated plants (Saatgutgesetz), BML . August 2, 1951. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ Bundessortenamt: Brochure: The Bundessortenamt - Protection and Approval of New Plant Varieties , accessed on September 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 2100/94 of the Council on Community Plant Variety Rights of July 27, 1994, OJ. EC No. L 227/1 of September 1, 1994
  6. ↑ BSA organization chart .


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