S.L. 417.1 Art. 8Application referring to biologically reproducible material.

(1) Where the application refers to biologically reproducible material which cannot be disclosed in the application in such a way as to enable the invention to be carried out by a person skilled in the art, and such material is not available to the public, the application shall be supplemented by a deposit of such material with an international authority which has acquired such status as provided in Article 7 of the Budapest Treaty.

(2) The Budapest Treaty means the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-Organisms for the Purpose of Patent Procedure, done at Budapest in 1977.

(3) The name of the authority and the accessing number of the deposit must be given in the specification of the application.

(4) The deposit referred to in the preceding subregulations must take place no later than the date of the filing of the application.