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, by the Government of the Portuguese Republic, of a notification dated May 12, 1999, that the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and as amended on September 28, 1979, shall extend to Macau.
The application of the said Convention to Macau shall take effect, in accordance with Article 24(3)(a), on August 12, 1999.
May 12, 1999