Article 103 Exhaustion of the rights
1. The rights conferred by a patent do not allow its holder to forbid acts related to the products protected by it after its sale by the patentee or with his consent, in the European economic area.
2 .The protection referred to in Article 97(3) to 97(5) does not cover biological material obtained by propagation or multiplication of a biological material sold by the patentee or with his consent, in the European economic area, if the propagation or multiplication is the necessary result of the use for which the biological material was placed on the market, provided that the material obtained is not then used for further propagation or multiplication.