These Regulations aim at protecting the rights in new varieties of plants, encouraging the breeding and use of new varieties of plants, and promoting the development of agriculture and forestry. The "new variety of plant" referred to in these Regulations, means a cultivated variety, or a developed one based on a discovered wild plant, which possesses novelty, distinctness, uniformity and stability, and which is designated by an adequate denomination" (art. 2). The receipt and examination of appl