The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, in accordance with the request of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, has the honor to inform him that, as stated by the said Government in its note dated December 23, 1985, the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification which had been made applicable to the Netherlands Antilles including the island of Aruba (see Strasbourg Notification No. 14 dated September 17, 1974), applies as January 1, 1986, as concerns the Kingdom of Netherlands, to the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
August 8, 1986