In this new episode of Seeds of Tomorrow – The Next Chapter, CPVO accounting colleagues take us behind the scenes of what accounting really looks like inside a European agency — and why it matters far beyond “just numbers.”

The conversation explores how sound financial management supports CPVO’s mission; the role of controls, audits and risk management; how budgets are planned and executed; and how accounting contributes to transparency, trust and good governance across the organisation.

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In this new episode of Seeds of Tomorrow – The Next Chapter, Annamaria Sideri, Head of the People & Resources Unit, and Tiago Sousa, Head of Human Resources at the CPVO, discuss what HR looks like inside a European agency working at the crossroads of innovation, science and intellectual property.

The conversation explores why HR is a strategic function in a specialised EU Office; how the CPVO attracts and retains talent with rare technical expertise; and how skills development and workplace culture support organisational performance and innovation in plant breeding across Europe.

In this new episode, Dr. Jocelyn Bosse, Intellectual Property expert at Queen’s University Belfast, sits down with Montserrat García-Moncó Fuente, Head of the Legal Unit at the CPVO, to unpack the legal dynamics shaping plant variety protection today.The discussion touches on current legal challenges in enforcing and interpreting plant variety rights; how IP frameworks encourage innovation and support breeders across Europe; and emerging trends in IP law — from new breeding technologies to digitalisation — and what they may mean for plant breeders and the CPVO. An insightful exchange between two experts on how law, innovation, and plant breeding continue to evolve together.