- Unauthorized production and marketing of the protected variety (seed, plants or crops) under its original name (concerns most often agricultural species)
- Unauthorized production and marketing of the protected variety (seeds, plants, or crops) under a different denomination (concerns mostly horticultural, vegetable and ornamental species)
- Production of seed or plants outside the protected territory and unauthorized importation into the protected territory
- Unauthorized export to territories where there is no plant variety protection of the species concerned
Specific farm-saved seed cases involving protected varieties:
- Unauthorized self-production, by farmers or nurseries, of seed or plants not included in the list covered by the concept of “farm-saved seed”
- Failure to declare the use of seed or plants of a species included in the list covered by the concept of “farm-saved seed” (i.e. seed potatoes)
- Sales or exchanges of self-produced plants, declared or not to SICASOV
