The Egyptian Agricultural Quarantine reduces intellectual property rights protection fees for strawberry varieties exported to the Arab Gulf countries

Dr. Mohamed El-Mansi, Head of the Egyptian Agricultural Quarantine, announced the success of the quarantine in negotiating with the company that owns the intellectual property rights for most of the strawberry varieties grown for export, in order to reduce the value of the intellectual property rights protection fees for those varieties by 20%, which are exported to the Gulf countries. A report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture revealed that this comes within the framework of the instructions of Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, to make efforts to facilitate the flow of Egyptian agricultural exports and in light of the start of the fresh strawberry export season. This comes within the framework of the efforts of the Egyptian Agricultural Quarantine to adhere to international conventions to protect intellectual property rights while ensuring the access of Egyptian exports to various countries of the world and ...