Article 7
Inventions in the field of biotechnology shall be patentable if they relate to:
a) biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by any technical process, even if it previously occurred in nature;
c) a microbiological process or other technical process or a product, other than a plant variety or animal breed, obtained by means of said process;
d) an element isolated from the human body or otherwise produced by a technical process, including the sequence or partial sequence of a gene, even if the structure of that element is identical to that of a natural element.
Article 8
The following in particular shall not be considered as inventions, within the meaning of Article 7:
a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematic methods;
Article 9
Patents shall not be granted under this Law in respect of:
b) plant varieties and animal breeds, as well as the essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals. This provision shall not apply to microbiological processes or products obtained thereby;
c) the inventions having as a subject-matter the human body in its various stages of formation and development, as well as the mere discovery of one of its elements, including the sequence or partial sequence of a gene;