8635 of 21 April 2008, published in La Gaceta No. 83 of the thirtieth of April 2008, approved the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, with the following interpretative declaration, namely:
Article 2 of the Law Approving this Convention establishes that " The Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica, in the exercise of its constitutional powers, within which resides the representation of the people, makes the following clarification regarding the application of this Convention, in accordance with Article 9 of the Biodiversity Law, No. 7788, and Article 2 and subparagraph f) of Article 6.2 of Law No. 8539, Approval of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: it is interpreted that, in the first paragraph of subsection iv) of Article 1 of Chapter I, the concept 'created' shall be understood to refer to the technical concept 'developed', the latter understood as 'the set of plant breeding (mejoramiento genético) techniques used to obtain a new plant variety (variedad vegetal)'.