The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify the receipt on August 31, 2022 of a communication dated August 31, 2022, from the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regarding changes to the schedule of fees charged by the National Collections of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria (NCIMB), an international depositary authority under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (Budapest Treaty), done at Budapest on April 28, 1977, and amended on September 26, 1980 (see Budapest Notification No. 24 of February 2, 1982).
According to Rule 12.2(c) of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty, the new fees shall take effect on November 1, 2022, that is, on the thirtieth day following the publication of the changes by the International Bureau.
| SCHEDULE OF FEES | ||
| 1. | Storage | GBP |
| 1.1. | Storage according to the Budapest Treaty (comprising of the initial viability check, the preservation and storage of biological material): | |
| - Orthodox seeds, bacteria, fungi, plasmids, bacteriophages (plus the host as a separate deposit) | 1.065 | |
| - Plant cell cultures | 1.683 | |
| 1.2. | Storage according to the Budapest Treaty (comprising of the initial viability check of biological material preserved by the depositor and the storage of biological material) or conversion of a deposit made outside of the Budapest Treaty into a deposit according to the Budapest Treaty: | |
| - Bacteria, fungi, plasmids, bacteriophages (plus the host as a separate deposit) | 830 | |
| - Plant cell cultures | 1.122 | |
| 2. | Viability Issuance of a viability statement according to Rule 10.2 of the Budapest Treaty: |
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| 2.1. | Where viability test is requested | 140 |
| 2.2. | On the basis of most recent viability test | 56 |
| 3. | Furnishing of a sample | |
| 3.1. | To the depositor according to Rule 11.2 (i) of the Regulation under the Budapest Treaty | 110 |
| 3.2. | To a third party according to Rule 11.2 (ii) and 11.3 of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty | 170 |
October 2, 2022