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Art.14 |
Article 14 Amendment of Certain Provisions of the Treaty |
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Art.14.1.a |
(1) (a) Proposals under this Article for the amendment of Articles 10 and 11 may be initiated by any Contracting State or by the Director General. |
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Art.14.1.b |
(b) Such proposals shall be communicated by the Director General to the Contracting States at least six months in advance of their consideration by the Assembly. |
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Art.14.2.a |
(2) (a) Amendments to the Articles referred to in paragraph (1) shall be adopted by the Assembly. |
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Art.14.2.b |
(b) Adoption of any amendment to Article 10 shall require four-fifths of the votes cast; adoption of any amendment to Article 11 shall require three-fourths of the votes cast. |
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Art.14.3.a |
(3) (a) Any amendment to the Articles referred to in paragraph (1) shall enter into force one month after written notifications of acceptance, effected in accordance with their respective constitutional processes, have been received by the Director General from three-fourths of the Contracting States members of the Assembly at the time the Assembly adopted the amendment. |
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Art.14.3.b |
(b) Any amendment to the said Articles thus accepted shall bind all the Contracting States which were Contracting States at the time the amendment was adopted by the Assembly, provided that any amendment creating financial obligations for the said Contracting States or increasing such obligations shall bind only those Contracting States which have notified their acceptance of such amendment. |
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Art.14.3.c |
(c) Any amendment which has been accepted and which has entered into force in accordance with subparagraph (a) shall bind all States which become Contracting States after the date on which the amendment was adopted by the Assembly. |
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Sect.4 |
CHAPTER IV FINAL PROVISIONS |
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Art.15 |
Article 15 Becoming Party to the Treaty |
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Art.15.1 |
(1) Any State member of the International (Paris) Union for the Protection of Industrial Property may become party to this Treaty by: |
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Art.15.1.i |
(i) signature followed by the deposit of an instrument of ratification, or |
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Art.15.1.ii |
(ii) deposit of an instrument of accession. |
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Art.15.2 |
(2) Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Director General. |
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Art.18 |
Article 18 Signature and Languages of the Treaty |
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Art.18.1.a |
(1) (a) This Treaty shall be signed in a single original in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic. |
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Art.18.1.b |
(b) Official texts of this Treaty shall be established by the Director General, after consultation with the interested Governments and within two months from the date of signature of this Treaty, in the other languages in which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization was signed. |
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Art.18.1.c |
(c) Official texts of this Treaty shall be established by the Director General, after consultation with the interested Governments, in the Arabic, German, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese languages, and such other languages as the Assembly may designate. |
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Art.18.2 |
(2) This Treaty shall remain open for signature at Budapest until December 31, 1977. |
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Art.19 |
Article 19 Deposit of the Treaty; Transmittal of Copies; Registration of the Treaty |
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Art.19.1 |
(1) The original of this Treaty, when no longer open for signature, shall be deposited with the Director General. |
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Art.19.2 |
(2) The Director General shall transmit two copies, certified by him, of this Treaty and the Regulations to the Governments of all the States referred to in Article 15(1), to the intergovernmental organizations that may file a declaration under Article 9(1)(a) and, on request, to the Government of any other State. |
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Art.19.3 |
(3) The Director General shall register this Treaty with the Secretariat of the United Nations. |
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Art.19.4 |
(4) The Director General shall transmit two copies, certified by him, of any amendment to this Treaty and to the Regulations to all Contracting States, to all intergovernmental industrial property organizations and, on request, to the Government of any other State and to any other intergovernmental organization that may file a declaration under Article 9(1)(a). |
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Art.20 |
Article 20 Notifications |
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Art.20.1x |
The Director General shall notify the Contracting States, the intergovernmental industrial property organizations and those States not members of the Union which are members of the International (Paris) Union for the Protection of Industrial Property of: |
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Art.20.1x.i |
(i) signatures under Article 18; |
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Art.20.1x.ii |
(ii) deposits of instruments of ratification or accession under Article 15(2); |
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Art.20.1x.iii |
(iii) declarations filed under Article 9(1)(a) and notifications of withdrawal under Article 9(2) or (3); |
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Art.20.1x.iv |
(iv) the date of entry into force of this Treaty under Article 16(1); |
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Art.20.1x.v |
(v) the communications under Articles 7 and 8 and the decisions under Article 8; |
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Art.20.1x.vi |
(vi) acceptance of amendments to this Treaty under Article 14(3); |
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Art.20.1x.vii |
(vii) any amendment of the Regulations; |
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Art.20.1x.viii |
(viii) the dates on which amendments to the Treaty or the Regulations enter into force; |
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Art.20.1x.ix |
(ix) denunciations received under Article 17. |
