7.2 Indication of the purpose of the payment in the case of designation fees 

The following applies only to applications filed before 1 April 2009.

The designation fees are deemed paid for all contracting states upon payment of seven times the amount of one designation fee. Such payments simply need to be marked "designation fees" in order for the purpose of the payment to be established. If fewer than seven designation fees are paid and the payment agrees with the declaration in the appropriate section of the request for grant form (EPO Form 1001), payment should once again simply be marked "designation fees". However, if the payment differs from the intended payment as stated on the request form, the contracting states for which the payment is now intended should be indicated with the payment.

If there is no such indication and the amount paid is insufficient to cover all the contracting states mentioned in the appropriate section of the request form, the procedure under A‑III, 11.3.7 applies.

If an automatic debit order has been given, applicants must inform the EPO prior to expiry of the basic period under Rule 39(1) if they wish to pay designation fees for contracting states other than those indicated on the request form. If not, an amount equal to seven times the amount of one designation fee or the designation fees for the contracting states indicated on the request form is debited.

The same applies for Euro-PCT applications that entered the European phase before 1 April 2009.