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Paris Notification No. 42
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property

Notification deposited by the People's Republic of the Congo concerning the application of the transitional provisions (five-year privilege)

The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, in accordance with the provisions of the above international instrument, adopted at Stockholm, has the honor to notify him of the notification deposited by the Government of the People's Republic of the Congo, in which that Government indicates its desire to avail itself of the provisions of Article 30(2) of the Stockholm Act of the Paris Convention.

This notification entered into force on the date of its receipt, that is, on January 23, 1973.

Pursuant to the provisions of the said Article, the People's Republic of the Congo which is a member of the Paris Union, may, until the expiration of five years from the date of entry into force of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), that is to say until April 26, 1975, exercise the rights provided under Articles 13 to 17 of the Stockholm Act of the Paris Convention, as if it were bound by those Articles.

January 26, 1973