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 Kingdom of the Netherlands, on October 14, 1996, of its instrument of acceptance of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of December 2, 1961, as revised at Geneva on November 10, 1972, on October 23, 1978, and on March 19, 1991 (the 1991 Act), for the Kingdom in Europe.
The date of entry into force of the said Act will be notified when the required number of ratifications, acceptances, approvals or accessions is reached in accordance with Article 37(1) of the said Act.
October 14, 1996