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 October 17, 1994, of the communication of the Czech Republic, dated October 12, 1994, stating an extension of the list of kinds of microorganisms accepted, for deposit, by the Czech Collection of Microorganisms (CCM), 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. 107 and 116 of July 8, 1992, and July 23, 1993, respectively). The text of that communication is attached.
The list so extended of the kinds of microorganisms accepted, for deposit, by the Czech Collection of Microorganisms (CCM) will be published in the November 1994 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle. The extended list will take effect as from the date (November 30, 1994) of that publication.
November 4, 1994
Text of the Communication of the Government of the Czech Republic of October 12, 1994, Relating to an Extension of the List of Kinds of Microorganisms Accepted for Deposit by the Czech Collection of Microorganisms (CCM)
[Original: English]
COMMUNICATION
The Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations at Geneva presents its compliments to the World Intellectual Property Organization and has the honour to inform the latter that the Czech Collection of Microorganisms (CCM) performing the functions of an International Depositary Authority under the Budapest Treaty extends the list of microorganisms, as follows:
Microorganisms Accepted for Deposit with CCM
The bacteria (including actinomycetes), filamentous fungi, yeast-like microorganisms, yeasts accepted are those capable of long term preservation without any substantial change of their initial properties, plasmids in a host.
Notice:
(a) The CCM accepts for deposit only those bacteria, filamentous fungi, yeast-like microorganisms and yeasts which, pursuant to Laboratory Biosafety Manual (World Health Organization, Geneva 1983), belong to hazard group I or II;
(b) Microorganisms having special requirements for cultivation which the CCM is not technically capable of carrying out, shall not be accepted;
(c) Cultures without scientific description as well as cultures which cannot be identified, shall not be accepted;
(d) When depositing strains containing a plasmid, the CCM shall require information on the plasmid and its host strain in respect of their properties and classification (i.e., group P1, P2, P3 or P4). The CCM shall accept only plasmids belonging to group P1.