
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1238/95 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Article 9, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. The Office shall charge a holder of a Community plant variety right (‘the holder’) a fee of EUR 330 for each year of the duration of a Community plant variety right (‘annual fee’), as referred to in Article 113(2)(d) of the Basic Regulation.';
((2)) Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2017.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 6 December 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX


ANNEX I 
The fee to be paid for the technical examination of a variety pursuant to Article 8 shall be determined in accordance with the table:

(in EUR)
 Cost group Fee
Agricultural group
1 Potato 1 760
2 Oilseed rape 1 860
3 Grasses 2 430
4 Other agricultural species 1 530
Fruit group
5 Apple 3 050
6 Strawberry 2 920
7 Other fruit species 2 810
Ornamental group
8 Ornamental living greenhouse 2 020
9 Ornamental living outdoor 1 960
10 Ornamental non-living greenhouse 1 940
11 Ornamental non-living outdoor 1 730
12 Ornamental special 3 350
Vegetable group
13 Vegetable greenhouse 2 360
14 Vegetable outdoor 2 150
