Estudo comparativo das leis de proteção em cultivares em arroz irrigado no Brasil e na Argentina

Abstract

Rice cultivation has shown significant gains in productivity among other features, primarily through breeding. The protection of intellectual capital through the protection of plant varieties, is to ensure the financial return obtained by plant variety protection, ensuring investments in new technologies, generating steady development in rice production in countries such as Brazil and Argentina. Objective of this study was to compare the form of literature review, the legislation governing the protection of plant varieties in irrigated rice in Brazil and Argentina, and their relationships in the international context. Among the differences are the composition of the laws, and the Seeds Act and Creations Phytogenetic in Argentina, is the most comprehensive, dealing since the incorporation of the law and its effects complementary to seed development, production and trade as the Law Plant Variety Protection in Brazil is more specific on the issue. How to performance of countries during the application for protection has been a greater ease in performing the processes in Argentina. Regarding the number of rice cultivars protected in countries identified that Brazil has many. It was also observed that there is no theoretical framework available as regions of adaptability of rice cultivars used in Argentina. Despite the existence of rules, laws and international agreements established for the protection of intellectual capital in both countries and their relationships, there are still irregularities mainly promoted by rice farmers. Noting that, although both countries are signatories to the 1978 Act of the UPOV, there are considerable differences in the protection of rice cultivars, which could and should be reassessed for the benefit of producers, traders and breeders mainly from these genotypes.