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, on December 30, 1992, by the Government of the Slovak Republic, of the following declaration:
"The Government of the Slovak Republic hereby declares that
- the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, of September 9, 1886, as revised at Paris on July 24, 1971, and amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods, of April 14, 1891, as revised at Lisbon on October 31, 1958, and supplemented at Stockholm on July 14, 1967,
- the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, of April 14, 1891, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks, of June 15, 1957, as revised at Geneva on May 13, 1977, and amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, of October 31, 1958, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1979, and amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, of October 8, 1968, as amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), of June 19, 1970, as amended on September 28, 1979, and modified on February 3, 1984,
- the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification, of March 24, 1971, as amended on September 28, 1979,
- the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, of April 28, 1977, as amended on September 26, 1980,
- the Treaty on the International Registration of Audiovisual Works, adopted at Geneva on April 18, 1989,
continue, as from January 1, 1993, to be applicable as far as the Slovak Republic is concerned.
The Government of the Slovak Republic declares that, for the purpose of establishing its contribution towards the budgets of the Paris and Berne Unions, the Slovak Republic wishes to belong to class V."
January 6, 1993