Law No. 2128 ratifying the Budapest Treaty on the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of patent procedures, signed in Budapest on 28th April 1977 and renewed on 26th September 1980 (together with the Implementing Regulation).

The law ratifies the Treaty for the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of patent procedure. According to article 2 of the law “deposit of a microorganism” means, the transmittal of a microorganism to an international depositary authority, which receives and accepts it, or the storage of such a microorganism by the international depositary authority, or both the said transmittal and the said storage. The Minister of industry, energy and technology, after proposal by the Hellenic Industrial Property (OBI) Organization shall issue decrees for the implementation in details of the present law.