The objectives and purposes of CIOPORA are:
- to defend and represent the legitimate interests of its members;
- to work in particular on the development, improvement and unification of national and international regulations for the protection of breeders' rights, whether by patents, plant patents or plant breeders' rights certificates, within the framework of the UPOV-Convention and the laws and treaties concerning the protection of intellectual property in general;
- with a view to said purpose, to intervene with governments and international organizations, associations or other authorities that may have substantial concern with, or influence on, the scope and contents of the rights of said breeders on their plant creations.
The objective of CIOPORA is furthermore to make its members aware of all problems concerning the protection of their rights on their creations and to improve their knowledge in relation thereto. This is achieved by publications on this web-page, through written circular letters and by way of the Annual General meetings.
Once every five years, CIOPORA organizes an international Colloquium on Plant Variety Protection, which brings together not only breeders of all different kinds of plant crops but also lawyers and consultants specialized in the field of Industrial Property as well as the officials from Plant Varity Offices and from the relevant international organizations.