Join ACLP
Why join the ACLP
The ACLP is Europe’s only non-profit licensing platform for agricultural crops giving plant breeders guaranteed, transparent access to patented traits in agricultural, ornamental, fruit and forest crops, including traits developed using new genomic techniques (NGTs). Founded in 2023 and now representing 10 member companies covering 95% of patented traits in European commercial varieties, the ACLP provides a simple legal framework that works for breeders of every size.
In particular, the ACLP initiative ensures that its members:
provide breeding rights (including the right to use markers for identification of traits) for patented traits contained in commercial varieties available on the open market providing a contractual, clearly defined and uniform limited breeders exemption across the ACLP territory which doesn’t exist to date
commit to grant commercial licenses to their patented traits to other members on fair conditions enabling them to commercialize new varieties
commit to enter data in the Euroseeds PINTO database* to ensure transparency about commercial varieties available on the open market containing patented traits in Europe
Members of the ACLP will thus benefit from:
guaranteed and accelerated access to and freedom to operate for breeding with all varieties commercially available on the open market including those containing patented traits and maintaining such traits in progenies
minimized transaction costs to obtain a commercial license;
guaranteed freedom to operate for commercialization of traits contained in newly bred varieties
Membership eligibility criteria:
Your organisation is legally constituted and validly existing under the laws of your country.
Your organisation has a registered office within the ACLP territory (39 EPC member states + Ukraine), directly or through affiliates
You organisation carries out plant breeding activity and/or genetic trait R&D in an agricultural crop within the ACLP territory.
