Article 54

1.   Where the Office grants a Community plant variety right, it shall issue, together with the decision thereon, a certificate for the Community plant variety right as evidence of the grant.

That certificate shall be delivered by the Office, in the form of a digital document, to the holder of the right or his procedural representative.

2.   The Office shall issue the certificate for the Community plant variety right in whichever official language or languages of the European Union is requested by the holder.

3.   On request, the Office may issue a copy to the person entitled if it establishes that the original certificate has been lost or destroyed.