Article 79

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1.   Any transfer of Community plant variety rights shall be entered in the Register of Community Plant Variety Rights on production of documentary evidence of the transfer, or of official documents confirming the transfer, or of such extracts from those documents as suffice to establish the transfer. The Office shall retain a copy of those pieces of documentary evidence in its files.
The President of the Office shall determine the form in and the conditions under which those pieces of documentary evidence are to be retained in the files of the Office.

2.   The entry of a transfer may be refused only in the event of failure to comply with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 and in Article 23 of the basic Regulation.

3.   Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply to any transfer of an entitlement to a Community plant variety right for which an application has been entered in the Register of Applications for Community Plant Variety Rights. The reference to the Register of Community Plant Variety Rights shall be understood as a reference to the Register of Applications for Community Plant Variety Rights.