No. 98 – December 2004 PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION 35 Law No. 24 for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants JORDAN - page 1 JORDAN Article 1 This Law shall be known as (The Law for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of the Year 2000), and shall come into force thirty days after the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. DEFINITIONS Article 2 The following terms and phrases, wherever mentioned in this Law, shall have the meanings designated hereunder, unless otherwise indicated by context: Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture. Minister: Minister of Agriculture. Plant Variety: The hierarchy of the plants in the Plant Kingdom shall be from the grouping, to the rank, to the family, to the genus, to the species, to the variety. Variety: Any plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, irrespective of whether the conditions for the grant of the protection right are fully met, and is defined by the expression of the characteristics resulting from a ge...