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Contracting Parties Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, of February 19, 2013 Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

Dates Signature: February 19, 2013 Ratification: September 14, 2016 Entry into force: June 1, 2023

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Declaration regarding the provisional application of certain provisions of the Agreement:
"The Kingdom of the Netherlands intends to inform the General Secretariat of the European Union, depositary of the Agreement referred to above, once it has received parliamentary approval to ratify the Agreement, for the European part of the Kingdom, in accordance with article 84 of this Agreement.
Pending the entry into force of the Agreement for the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in accordance with its Article 89, the Kingdom of the Netherlands declares that it considers itself bound, for the European part of the Kingdom, by the provisional application of the following provisions of the Agreement as from the date on which the Kingdom of the Netherlands will have informed the depositary that it has received parliamentary approval to ratify the Agreement for the European part of the Kingdom:
- the articles 1, 2, 4-5, 6(1), 7, 10-19, 35(1, 3 and 4), 36-41 and 71(3) of the Agreement,
- the articles 1-7(1), 7(5), 9-18, 20(1), 22-28, 30, 32, 33 and 35(1) of Annex I of the Agreement (Statute of the Unified Patent Court)".