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 March 6, 1984, of the notification of the Government of Japan stating a change as concerns the fees to be charged by the Fermentation Research Institute as 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. The text of that notification is attached.
The fees set forth in the said notification of the Government of Japan will apply as from the thirtieth day following the date (March 31, 1984) of the publication of the said fees in the March 1984 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle, that is, as from April 30, 1984 (see Rule 2.2(c) of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty).
March 6, 1984
Text of the Notification of the Government of Japan dated March 2, 1984, stating a change in the fees charged by the Fermentation Research Institute
NOTIFICATION
The fee schedule of the Fermentation Research Institute (FRI) as published in the April 1981 issue of Industrial Property is replaced by the following schedule:
1. Fee schedule
| Storage | Yen | ||
| (a) original deposit | 170'000 | ||
| (b) new deposit | 9'700 | ||
| The attestation referred to in Rule 8.2 | 1'800 | ||
| The issuance of a viability statement | |||
| (a) if the depositor, when requesting the issuance of the viability statement, also requested a viability test | 5'900 | ||
| (b) in other cases | 1'800 | ||
| The furnishing of a sample | 6'900 | ||
| The communication of information under Rule 7.6 | 1'800 | ||
2. Date of enforcement: April 30, 1984