(xvii) ` Examining Office` means an Office which ex officio examines applications filed with it for the protection of industrial designs at least to determine whether the industrial designs satisfy the condition of novelty;

(iv) reference to ` Contracting Party whose Office is an examining Office` shall be deemed, where appropriate, to include a reference to ` State having a novelty examination` as defined in Article 2 of the 1960 Act;

(b) Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), any Contracting Party whose Office is an Examining Office, or whose law provides for the possibility of opposition to the grant of protection, may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that the period of six months referred to in that subparagraph shall be replaced by a period of 12 months.

(3) [Declaration Concerning Effect of Designation of Applicant's Contracting Party] (a) Any Contracting Party whose Office is an Examining Office may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that, where it is the applicant's Contracting Party, the designation of that Contracting Party in an international registration shall have no effect.

(b) Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), any Contracting Party whose Office is an Examining Office, or whose law provides for the possibility of opposition to the grant of protection, may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that, where it is designated under the 1999 Act, the period of six months referred to in that subparagraph shall be replaced by a period of 12 months.

(2) [Additional Mandatory Contents of the International Application] (a) Any Contracting Party whose Office is an Examining Office and whose law, at the time it becomes party to this Act, requires that an application for the grant of protection to an industrial design contain any of the elements specified in subparagraph (b) in order for that application to be accorded a filing date under that law may, in a declaration, notify the Director General of those elements.

(2) [Individual Designation Fee] Any Contracting Party whose Office is an Examining Office and any Contracting Party that is an intergovernmental organization may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that, in connection with any international application in which it is designated, and in connection with the renewal of any international registration resulting from such an international application, the prescribed designation fee referred to in paragraph (1) shall be replaced by an individual designation fee, whose amount shall be indicated in the declaration and can be changed in further declarations.

(1) [Individual Designation Fee] For the purpose of Article 15(1)2(b) of the 1960 Act, any Contracting Party to the 1960 Act whose Office is an Examining Office may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that, in connection with any international application in which it is designated under the 1960 Act, the standard designation fee referred to in Rule 12(1)(a)(ii) shall be replaced by an individual designation fee, whose amount shall be indicated in the declaration and can be changed in further declarations.

(b) The Office shall, until publication of the international registration by the International Bureau, keep in confidence each international registration of which a copy has been sent to it by the International Bureau and may use the said copy only for the purpose of the examination of the international registration and of applications for the protection of industrial designs filed in or for the Contracting Party for which the Office is competent.

the supply of seed potatoes to official testing and inspection bodies,

which has been found by official examination to satisfy the abovementioned conditions.

which has been found by official examination to satisfy the above conditions.

Member States shall provide that acceptance of varieties be based on the results of official examinations, particularly growing trials, covering a sufficient number of characteristics for the variety to be described.

The institutions shall, after consultation of the Staff Regulations Committee, entrust the European Communities Personnel Selection Office (hereinafter 'the Office') with responsibility for taking the necessary measures to ensure that uniform standards are applied in the selection procedures for officials of the Communities and in the assessment and in the examination procedures referred to in Articles 45 and 45a of the Staff Regulations.

Member States shall provide that the official examinations carried out for the acceptance of varieties shall cover at least the following characteristics:

Where, on the entry into force of this Directive, varieties have not been accepted for inclusion in the Common Catalogue of varieties of vegetable species, and official examinations started prior to that date in accordance with the provisions of either

"Sampled and analysed according to AOSA rules by..." (name or initials of the officially recognised seed testing laboratory), and

Whereas, in order to satisfy the conditions for official examination of seed carried out in accordance with current international methods, it is necessary to revise certain provisions;

(2) Test guidelines relating to the conditions for the examination of the varieties have been issued by the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights(5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1650/2003(6), in respect of certain species.

(a) the species listed in Annex I shall comply with the conditions laid down in the "Protocols for distinctness, uniformity and stability tests" of the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) listed in that Annex;

Where the official examinations carried out for the acceptance of the varieties have started prior to that date, either wholly or partially in accordance with the original provisions of Directives 72/168/EEC or 72/180/EEC, the varieties concerned shall not be required to undergo new examination to demonstrate compliance with the new provisions.

Under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1239/95 of 31 May 1995 establishing implementing rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 as regards proceedings before the Community Plant Variety Office(5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2181/2002(6), the Office is to pay for technical examinations.

(9) Under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1239/95 of 31 May 1995 establishing implementing rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 as regards proceedings before the Community Plant Variety Office(5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2181/2002(6), the Office is to pay for technical examinations.

those characteristics listed in the respective test guidelines entitled 'Protocol for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability Tests', issued by the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office pursuant to Article 56 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94, and published in the Official Gazette of the Community Plant Variety Office.

The institutions shall, after consultation of the Staff Regulations Committee, entrust the European Communities Personnel Selection Office (hereinafter "the Office") with responsibility for taking the necessary measures to ensure that uniform standards are applied in the selection procedures for officials of the Communities and in the assessment and in the examination procedures referred to in Articles 45 and 45a of the Staff Regulations.

for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.), those characteristics listed in the respective test guidelines entitled 'Protocol for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability Tests', issued by the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office pursuant to Article 56 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94, and published in the Official Gazette of the Community Plant Variety Office.

(1) Commission Directive 72/168/EEC of 14 April 1972 determining the characteristics and minimum conditions for examining vegetable varieties(3), as amended by Directive 2002/8/EC(4) has established, with a view to official acceptance of the varieties in the Member States' catalogues, the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examinations of the various species, as well as the minimum requirements for carrying out the examinations.

Commission Directives 72/168/EEC of 14 April 1972 on determining the characteristics and minimum conditions for inspecting vegetable varieties and 72/180/EEC of 14 April 1972 determining the characteristics and minimum conditions for examining agricultural varieties have established, with a view to official acceptance of the varieties in the Member States' catalogues, the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examinations of the various species, as well as the minimum requirements for carrying out the examinations.

(name or initials of the officially recognised seed testing laboratory), and

The Member States shall require that, for the examination of seed potato tubers for certification, samples are taken officially in accordance with appropriate methods."

The Examination Office shall periodically submit to the Office a breakdown of the costs of the technical examination performed and of the maintenance of the necessary reference collections.

The Member States shall provide that acceptance of varieties be based on the results of official examinations, particularly growing trials, covering a sufficient number of characters for the variety to be described.

Whereas the arrangements for testing such structures should be harmonised with the arrangements defined in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) code 4 for the official testing of protection structures of agricultural tractors (static tests);

The sampling and testing programme for centrally authorised products will continue in 2006, using the expertise of the EEA’ s network of official medicines-control laboratories, enabling the quality of medicinal products on the market in the EEA to be controlled.

which is obtained direct from the basic material of a variety or, if the grower so requests, from propagation material of an earlier stage of multiplication than basic material which has been found by official examination to satisfy the conditions laid down in Annexes I and II for basic material;

Var. botrytis L.) and lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), those characteristics listed in the respective test guidelines entitled 'Protocol for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability Tests', issued by the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office pursuant to Article 56 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94(8), and published in the Official Gazette of the Community Plant Variety Office.

for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.), those characteristics listed in the respective test guidelines entitled 'Protocol for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability Tests', issued by the Administrative Council of the Community Plant Variety Office pursuant to Article 56 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94(9), and published in the Official Gazette of the Community Plant Variety Office.

provided that, in addition to the basic seed, at least the two generations of pre-basic seed immediately preceding that category, have been found by an official examination carried out in Member State concerned, to satisfy the conditions laid down in Annexes I and II as to the varietal identity and varietal purity of basic seed."

The institutions shall, after consultation of the Staff Regulations Committee, entrust the European Communities Personnel Selection Office (hereinafter 'the Office') with responsibility for taking the necessary measures to ensure that uniform standards are applied in the selection procedures for officials of the Communities and in the assessment and in the examination procedures referred to in Articles 45 and 45a of the Staff Regulations.

Commission Directive 72/168/EEC of 14 April 1972 determining the characteristics and minimum conditions for examining vegetable varieties(3), as amended by Directive 2002/8/EC(4) has established, with a view to official acceptance of the varieties in the Member States' catalogues, the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examinations of the various species, as well as the minimum requirements for carrying out the examinations.

Commission Directives 72/168/EEC of 14 April 1972 on determining the characteristics and minimum conditions for inspecting vegetable varieties(4) and 72/180/EEC of 14 April 1972 determining the characteristics and minimum conditions for examining agricultural varieties(5) have established, with a view to official acceptance of the varieties in the Member States' catalogues, the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examinations of the various species, as well as the minimum requirements for carrying out the examinations.