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A. The owner of the plant protection document may initiate an action before the Committee against any person who infringes upon the patented variety by exploiting the propagating material of the patented variety without his consent inside the Kingdom. The following shall be deemed exploitation of the propagating material of the patented variety: 1. Producing or propagating it. 2. Conditioning it for purposes of propagation. 3. Exporting it. 4. Importing it. 5. Offering it for sale, selling it, or any other form of marketing. Law of Patents, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Varieties, and Industrial Designs 6. Storing it for any of the above purposes. B. The rights stipulated in paragraph (a) of this Article include harvested material of the variety, including the whole plant or part thereof obtained by the unlawful use of the propagating material of the variety. This applies where the owner of the protection document of the plant patent was not given a reasonable chance to exercise his rights in relation to the propagating material of said variety. C. The rights stipulated in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Article extend to the varieties derived essentially from the protected variety if it is not possible to distinguish such varieties clearly, in accordance with Article 55(b) of this Law, from the protected variety, or that the production of these varieties requires the repeated use of said protected variety. D. The rights stipulated in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this Article shall not extend to acts performed for non-commercial personal purposes, for experimental purposes, or for the purpose of breeding new varieties.