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ulations and may indicate the date on which the status of international depositary authority should take effect.

2 — a) If the Director General finds that the communication includes the required declaration and that all the required information has been received, the communication shall be promptly published by the International Bureau.

b) The status of international depositary authority shall be acquired as from the date of publication of the communication or, where a date has been indicated under paragraph 1, b), and such date is later than the date of publication of the communication, as from such date.

3 — The details of the procedure under paragraphs 1 and 2 are provided in the Regulations.

Article 8

Termination and limitation of the status of international depositary authority

1 — a) Any Contracting State or any intergovernmental industrial property organization may request the Assembly to terminate, or to limit to certain kinds of microorganisms, any authority's status of international depositary authority on the ground that the requirements specified in article 6 have not been or are no longer complied with. However, such a request may not be made by a Contracting State or intergovernmental industrial property organization in respect of an international depositary authority for which it has made the declaration referred to in article 7,1, a).

b) Before making the request under subparagraph a), the Contracting State or the intergovernmental industrial property organization shall, through the intermediary of the Director General, notify the reasons for the proposed request to the Contracting State or the intergovernmental industrial property organization which has made the communication referred to in article 7, 1, so that that State or organization may, within six months from the date of the said notification, take appropriate action to obviate the need for making the proposed request.

c) Where the Assembly finds that the request is well founded, it shall decide to terminate, or to limit to certain kinds of microorganisms, the status of international depositary authority of the authority referred to in subparagraph a). The decision of the Assembly shall require that a majority of two-thirds of the votes cast be in favor of the request.

2 — a) The Contracting State or intergovernmental industrial property organization having made the declaration referred to in article 7, 1, a), may, by a communication addressed to the Director General, withdraw its declaration either entirely or in respect only of certain kinds of microorganisms and in any event shall do so when and to the extent that its assurances are no longer applicable.

b) Such a communication shall, from the date provided for in the Regulations, entail, where it relates to the entire declaration, the termination of the status of international depositary authority or, where it relates only to certain kinds of microorganisms, a corresponding limitation of such status.

3 —The details of the procedure under paragraphs 1 and 2 are provided in the Regulations.

Article 9

Intergovernmental industrial property organizations

1 —a) Any intergovernmental organization to which several States have entrusted the task of granting regional patents and of which all the member States are members of the International (Paris) Union for the Protection of Industrial Property may file with the Director General a declaration that it accepts the obligation of recognition provided for in article 3,1, a), the obligation concerning the requirements referred to in article 3, 2, and all the effects of the provisions of this Treaty and the Regulations applicable to intergovernmental industrial property organizations. If filed before the entry into force of this Treaty according to article 16, 1, the declaration referred to in the preceding sentence shall become effective on the date of the said entry into force. If filed after such entry into force, the said declaration shall become effective three months after its filing unless a later date has been indicated in the declaration. In the latter case, the declaration shall take effect on the date thus indicated.

b) The said organization shall have the right provided for in article 3,1, b).

2 — Where any provision of this Treaty or of the Regulations affecting intergovernmental industrial property organizations is revised or amended, any intergovernmental industrial property organization may withdraw its declaration referred to in paragraph 1 by notification addressed to the Director General. The withdrawal shall take effect:

i) Where the notification has been received before the date on which the revision or amendment enters into force, on that date;

») Where the notification has been received after the date referred to in i), on the date indicated in the notification or, in the absence oi v&sK indication, three months after the date on which the notification was received.

3 — In addition to the case referred to in paragraph 2, any intergovernmental industrial property organization may withdraw its declaration referred to in paragraph 1, a), by notification addressed to the Director Gênerai. The withdrawal shall take effect two years after the date on which the Director General has received the notification. No notification of withdrawal under this paragraph shall be receivable during a period oî five years from the date on which the declaration took effect.

4 — The withdrawal referred to in paragraph 2 or 3 by an intergovernmental industrial property organization whose communication under article 7, 1, has led to the acquisition of the status of international depositary authority by a depositary institution shall entail the termination of such status one year after the date on which the Director General has received the notification of withdrawal.

5 — Any declaration referred to in paragraph 1, a), notification of withdrawal referred to in paragraph 2 or 3, assurances furnished under article 6, 1, second sentence, and included in a declaration made in accordance with article 7,1, a,) request made under article 8, 1, and communication of withdrawal referred to in article 8, 2, shall require the express previous approval oi the supreme governing organ of the intergovernmental industrial property organization whose members are all the States members of the said organization and in which decisions are made by the official representatives of the governments of such States.