Article 2 - (Subject-matter of the patent and exclusions from patentability)
4. The following inventions are not patentable:
c) inventions concerning animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of animals varieties; this provision shall not apply to microbiological processes and the products thereof;
5. An essentially biological process means a process, which consists entirely of natural phenomena such as crossing or selection.
7. For the purpose of this Single Text:
b) “microbiological process” means any process involving, performed upon or resulting in microbiological material.