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 Italian Republic, on April 28, 1986, 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 Italian Republic, one month after the date on which it deposited its instrument of ratification, that is, on May 28, 1986.
April 28, 1986