Regulatory issues of the Hellenic
Industrial Property Organisation
1. All applications submitted to the Hel- lenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI) for granting any type of industrial property title and certificate may be filed via internet, pursuant to the applicable legislation in force and namely in ac- cordance with the Law no. 1733/1987 (A' 171), the Presidential Decrees no.
77/1988 (A' 33), no. 16/1991 (A' 6), no.
45/1991 (A' 24), no. 415/1995 (A'24), no. 259/1997 (A' 185), and no. 46/2012 (A' 950). Regarding certification of elec- tronic signatures, the provisions of the Presidential Decree no. 150/2001 (A'
125) on electronic signature certification shall apply mutatis mutandis.
2. Electronic filing shall not be permitted for inventions of Law no. 4325/1963 (A'
156)
3. All terms, conditions, procedures, technical requirements and any matter related to the implementation of para- graph 1 shall be laid down by Order of the Minister of Development, Competi- tiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks.
4. The Hellenic Industrial Property Or- ganisation is supervised by the General Secretariat for Industry, which comes under the auspices of the Ministry of Development, Competitiveness, Infra- structure, Transport and Networks. Any general of specific provision contrary to the present section is hereby repealed.
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