European Union

Albania

Patents (including Plant Variety Protection)

32. Please explain the additional conditions, if any, in your legislation other than the sufficient disclosure of the invention in Article 29 of the TRIPS Agreement (e.g. submission of justification for access to genetic material or prior inform consent to its use). If such additional conditions exist, please point out the relevant legislations and describe the additional conditions in detail.

Paragraph 1 of Article 13 of the law states: a) The application shall disclose the invention in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for the invention to be carried out by a person skilled in the art. b) 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 a recognized depositary institution.