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 deposit by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on September 29, 1980, of its instrument of ratification of 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 said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, three months after the date on which it deposited its instrument of ratification, that is, on December 29, 1980.
September 30, 1980