4 CRITERIA FOR PROTECTION

4.0 Introduction

4.1 Plant Breeding

4.2 New

4.3 Prior Exploitation

4.4 Distinct

- 4.4.1 Essential Characteristics

- 4.4.2 Essentially Derived

- 4.4.3 Dependant plant variety

4.5 Uniform

4.6 Stable

4.7 Variety of Common Knowledge

4.8 Testing

- 4.8.1 In Australia

- 4.8.2 Outside Australia

- 4.8.3 Qualified Person

4.9 Provide comparative varieties

4.10 Naming a New Variety