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 him of the receipt, on July 4, 1994, and on July 14, 1994, of written notifications, dated June 29, 1994, and July 13, 1994, respectively, from the Government of the Russian Federation informing the Director General of WIPO of the new name and address and notifying the new schedule of fees charged by the All-Union Institute of Genetics and Industrial Cultivation of Microorganisms of the Corporation Pharmindustry (VKPM), an international depositary authority under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, done at Budapest on April 28, 1977, as amended on September 26, 1980 (see Budapest Notifications Nos. 63 and 108 of July 28, 1987, and September 15, 1992, respectively).
The new name and address of the said international depositary authority are:
Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (VKPM), GNII Genetika
Dorozhny proezd, 1
Moscow 113545
Russian Federation
The new schedule of fees charged by the said international depositary authority is attached.
The list of the kinds of microorganisms accepted for deposit by the above-mentioned international depositary authority remains unchanged.
The new schedule of fees set forth in the said notification will apply as from the thirtieth day following the date (August 31, 1994) of the publication of the said fees in the July/August 1994 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle, that is as from September 30, 1994 (see Rule 12.2(a) and (c) of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty). The said fees will replace the fees as published in the July/August 1987 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle (see Budapest Notification No. 63 of July 28, 1987).
July 18, 1994
Text of the Notification of the Government of the Russian Federation, dated June 29, 1994, relating to the Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (VKPM), GNII Genetika
SCHEDULE OF FEES
Pursuant to Rule 12.2 of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, the new schedule of fees charged by the Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (VKPM), GNII Genetika, is as follows:
| US Dollars | |||
| (a) | Storage | 300 | |
| (b) | Issuance of viability statements | 50 | |
| (c) | Furnishing of samples | 50 |