Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Aug. 29 / Trend H.Hasanov /
The Turkmenistan Parliament has adopted a law "On Legal Protection of New Varieties of Plants."
An additional mechanism was created to ensure the protection of intellectual property rights.
This law has been prepared in accordance with the program's methods to develop agriculture, improve the environment, and improve public health.
The new agricultural methods include research and breeding conducted on breeding high-yielding seed varieties and high-yield animal breeds, the most adapted to climatic conditions in the country.
The law included provisions of international conventions and laws operating in Turkmenistan for legal protection of intellectual property.
It regulates creating, identifying, breeding, and using choice selections. With the adoption of the Law, Turkmenistan entered the list of countries that recognize and provide legal protection to scientific advances in crop and livestock as related to intellectual property.
The law introduced the concept in terminology, which is formed on the basis of legal norms relating to the legal protection of selecting achievements in Turkmenistan, including basic concepts such as breeding achievements; the breeder, the variety, or breed, as well as auxiliary concepts, which reveal their contents.