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 the deposit by the Government of the United Arab Emirates, on February 17, 2021, of its instrument of accession to 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, and amended on September 26, 1980 (Budapest Treaty).
The Budapest Treaty will enter into force, with respect to the United Arab Emirates, on May 17, 2021.
February 17, 2021