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3.For the purposes of this Article, the following definitions apply:
(a)‘closely related species’ means the species listed in the Annex;
(b)‘official register of varieties’ means the Common catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species, referred to in Article 17 of Directive 2002/53/EC or in Article 17 of Directive 2002/55/EC, or the OECD Variety List, or a plant variety register of a Member of UPOV’;
(c)‘a variety no longer remains in existence’ means a variety of which material no longer exists;
(d)‘the denomination has acquired no special significance’ means a situation where the denomination of a variety which has been entered in an official register of varieties is considered to have lost special significance on the expiry of a 10-year period after deletion from that register, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
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