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Decision on Preparations for the Opening of the European Patent Office Verdrag inzake de verlening van Europese octrooien (Europees Octrooiverdrag)

The Conference for the setting up of a European System for the Grant of Patents, meeting at Munich on 5 October 1973,

Desiring to take all appropriate measures to enable the European Patent Office, in the interests of technical and economic development in Europe, to begin its activities as soon as possible,

Has adopted the following decision:

1. Immediately after the conclusion of this Diplomatic Conference an Interim Committee comprising representatives of all the States which have signed the European Patent Convention shall be set up; Articles 26, 27, 31, 34 and 35, paragraphs 1 and 3, of the Convention shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Committee. The Interim Committee may draw up Rules of Procedure to supplement these provisions. The Interim Committee shall be disbanded when the Administrative Council meets pursuant to Article 159, paragraph 1, of the Convention.

2. It shall be the duty of the Interim Committee to take all preparatory measures to enable the European Patent Office to begin its activities as soon as possible. For this purpose the Interim Committee shall be empowered to conclude provisional agreements with the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Netherlands; such agreements shall require the subsequent approval of the Administrative Council. The Interim Committee shall also be empowered in particular to prepare the special agreements provided for in the Protocol on Centralisation, the five-year plan provided for in Section II of that Protocol and the study provided for in Section VI of that Protocol.

3. The Interim Committee may set up an Executive Committee to be responsible for directing the preparations for setting up the European Patent Office, taking decisions in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Interim Committee and preparing the meetings of the Interim Committee.

4. The preparations for the opening of the European Patent Office shall be carried out by Working Parties, each of which shall be composed, as a general rule, of no more than six delegations of the States represented on the Interim Committee. The delegations of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands may take part as observers in the meetings of Working Parties of which they are not members. The delegations of other States represented on the Interim Committee may be invited by Working Parties of which they are not members to take part as observers in meetings in which matters are discussed which are of particular interest to the States in question.

5. The Interim Committee may invite inter-governmental and international non-governmental organisations to attend its meetings, those of the Executive Committee and those of the Working Parties as observers.

6. The States, inter-governmental and international non-governmental organisations represented on the Interim Committee shall bear the costs of sending their delegates to meetings of the Interim Committee, the Executive Committee and the Working Parties.

7. The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany shall issue the invitations to the inaugural meeting of the Interim Committee. It shall provide the premises and other facilities necessary for the interim work carried out at Munich and shall advance the amounts of the expenditure thus incurred. Such advances shall be refunded under the budget for the first accounting period of the European Patent Office as defined in Article 161 of the Convention.

Regeling
Verdrag inzake de verlening van Europese octrooien (Europees Octrooiverdrag)
Afkortingen
EOV, Europees Octrooiverdrag
Soort
Verdrag
Geldend vanaf
01-06-2026
BWB-id
BWBV0003819
Versie
2026-06-01_0

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