The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants or UPOV 's an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The current Secretary-General of UPOV's Kamil Idris. UPOV was established by the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. The Convention was adopted in Paris in 1961 and revised in 1972, 1978 and 1991. The objective of the Convention's the protection of new varieties of plants by an intellectual property right.… (More on Upov)