The Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to inform him of the deposit by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on August 24, 1983, of its instrument of ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of December 2, 1961, as revised at Geneva on November 10, 1972, and on October 23, 1978.
The said International Convention as revised in 1978 will enter into force, with respect to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, one month after the date on which it deposited its instrument of ratification, that is, on September 24, 1983.
August 29, 1983