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Act on the Protection of the Population in the Event of an Epidemic Situation of National Importance, Germany
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Year of Version
2020
Dates
Entry into force:
March 28, 2020
Promulgated:
March 27, 2020
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Article 1, paragraph 4 of the Act on the Protection of the Population in the Event of an Epidemic Situation of National Importance, inter alia, introduced amendments to subsection 5 under paragraph (2) of section 5, Chapter II of the Infection Protect Act, which entered into force on March 28, 2020. Subsection 5 confers upon the Federal Ministry of Health additional powers to control the epidemic situation, including the competence to order limitations on patents, which reads:
“5. to order under s. 13(1) of the Patent Act https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/legislation/details/17611 that an invention relating to one of the products mentioned in No. 4 […] shall be used in the interest of public welfare or in the interest of the security of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Federal Ministry of Health may instruct a subordinate authority to make such an order;…”.
Subsection 5 under section 5 of the Infection Protection Act will expire on April 1, 2021, pursuant to Article 3 and Article 7(4) of the Act.
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Gesetz zum Schutz der Bevölkerung bei einer epidemischen Lage von nationaler Tragweite
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