Annex C.2 to the ADA - Notice re debiting of EPl annual subscriptions from deposit accounts held with the EPO
Following a decision of the President of the EPO amending the Arrangements for deposit accounts1 and under the terms of the Administrative Agreement between the EPO and the epi2, annual subscriptions payable by professional representatives to the epi may be debited direct.
Professional representatives wishing to use this easy method of payment can issue a direct debiting mandate3 to the epi (not the EPO) by 15 February of each year. This must be signed by the holder of the deposit account to be debited.
The epi will combine several subscriptions to be debited from the same account into one overall sum, for which it will then issue the EPO with a debit order. The EPO will debit the account with effect from 25 February of each year.
If, after priority payment of fees or costs in respect of EPO publications or services, the credit balance of a deposit account is not sufficient to cover the epi debit order, the latter will not be carried out and will be returned to the epi. The epi member will be informed. Then, if the annual subscription has not been credited to the epi account through the standard banking procedure and at no expense to the epi by 30 April, an attempt will be made to debit the higher annual subscription on 25 June. Should this attempt also prove unsuccessful, the higher annual subscription must be paid to the epi through the standard banking procedure.
Subscriptions of epi members who had not issued a direct debiting mandate by the previous debiting date may also be debited with effect from 25 June. The deadline for receipt of the direct debiting mandate by the epi is then 15 June.
Information on the procedure is available only from the epi4.
1) Now point 10 ADA.
2) See OJ EPO 1999, Suppl. to No. 2/99, Annex C.1 on p. 46-48.
3) OJ EPO 1993, 399. No reprint is includes here as an up-to-date version, together with information concerning the payment of epi annual subscriptions, is published every year by the epi in “epi Information”.
4) epi Secretariat, P.O. Box 26 01 12, D-80058 Munich, Tel. (+49-89) 201 70 80, Fax (+49-89) 202 15 48.