The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to refer to the deposit by the Government of the Kingdom of Norway, on March 8, 1974, of its instrument of ratification of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September 9, 1886, as revised at Paris on July 24, 1971 ("Paris Act (1971)"), which deposit was accompanied by a declaration that its ratification did not apply to Articles 1 to 21 and the Appendix of the Paris Act (1971) (see Berne Notification No. 54).
The Director General of WIPO has the honor to notify that the Government of the Kingdom of Norway deposited, on July 11, 1995, a declaration extending the effects of the said ratification to Articles 1 to 21 of the Paris Act (1971).
Articles 1 to 21 of the Paris Act (1971) will enter into force, with respect to the Kingdom of Norway, on October 11, 1995.
July 11, 1995