WIPO Notification No. 128
Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization
Entry Into Force of Amendments to Articles 6(2)(iv), 6(4)(a), 7(2)(ii) and (iii) and 8(3)
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 His Excellency that the following amendments to the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, will enter into force on May 25, 1984:
- in Article 6(2)(iv), "triennial" is replaced by "biennial";
- in Article 6(4)(a), "third" is replaced by "second";
- in Article 7(2)(ii) and (iii), "triennial" is replaced by "biennial";
- in Article 8(3), item (iv) is deleted.
It is recalled that the said amendments were unanimously adopted by the WIPO Conference on October 2, 1979 (see document AB/X/32, paragraph 33). At that time, the number of States Members of WIPO was 85.
The entry into force of the said amendments was brought about by the receipt by the Director General of notifications of acceptance of those amendments from the required number of States Members of WIPO at the time the WIPO Conference adopted the amendments, that is, from three-fourths of the said Member States. The required number of notifications is 64. They were received, in chronological order, from the following Member States (the date of receipt is indicated in parentheses): Liechtenstein (November 16, 1979), Federal Republic of Germany (December 11, 1979), Norway (December 14, 1979), Republic of Korea (December 17, 1979), Denmark (December 24, 1979), United Arab Emirates (December 28, 1979), Tunisia (January 3, 1980), Ireland (January 4, 1980), Sudan (January 7, 1980), Sweden (January 9, 1980), Upper Volta (January 14, 1980), Spain (January 17, 1980), Monaco (January 23, 1980), France (January 31, 1980), Brazil (February 8, 1980), Holy See (February 25, 1980), Italy (February 26, 1980), Suriname (March 3, 1980), Czechoslovakia (April 15, 1980), Bahamas (May 6, 1980), Canada (May 16, 1980), India (May 29, 1980), United States of America (June 2, 1980), Romania (June 11, 1980), Zambia (June 23, 1980), Switzerland (July 3, 1980), Luxembourg (October 3, 1980), Qatar (October 21, 1980), United Kingdom (November 4, 1980), Portugal (December 15, 1980), Bulgaria (January 5, 1981), Chile (January 21, 1981), Hungary (February 19, 1981), Greece (April 2, 1981), Finland (October 23, 1981), Soviet Union (October 30, 1981), Australia (November 13, 1981), Kenya (November 16, 1981), Mexico (November 23, 1981), Israel (November 25, 1981), Turkey (December 30, 1981), Niger (January 15, 1982), Egypt (January 25, 1982), Malawi (March 5, 1982), Jordan (March 24, 1982), German Democratic Republic (August 6, 1982), Iraq (August 30, 1983), Algeria (September 1, 1983), Central African Republic (September 15, 1983), Viet Nam (September 23, 1983), Congo (October 5, 1983), Uganda (October 12, 1983), Mauritius (December 13, 1983), Netherlands (January 9, 1984), Burundi (February 28, 1984), El Salvador (March 7, 1984), Byelorussian SSR (March 9, 1984), Cameroon (March 26, 1984), Ukrainian SSR (March 29, 1984), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (March 30, 1984), Chad (April 3, 1984), Benin (April 11, 1984), Mongolia (April 25, 1984), Morocco (May 1, 1984).
It is recalled that, according to the applicable provisions of the Convention Establishing WIPO, the amendments bind not only all the States Members of WIPO at the time the amendments enter into force but also the States "which become Members thereof at a subsequent date" (Article 17(3)).
May 24, 1984