Article 5³⁸
Payment of fees

³⁸Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 17/07 of 25.10.2007 (OJ EPO 2007, 533), and in particular by its Article 1, point 2; entered into force on 01.04.2008.

³⁹See the notice from the EPO concerning fee payments via bank transfer (OJ EPO 2017, A100).
See also the notice from the EPO dated 20.08.2019 concerning the fee refund procedures (OJ EPO 2019, A82).

⁴⁰See the Arrangements for deposit accounts valid as of 01.10.2019 (supplementary publication 4, OJ EPO 2019), the decision of the President of the EPO dated 04.06.2020 amending Annex A.1 and Annex A.2 to the Arrangements for deposit accounts (ADA) (OJ EPO 2020, A77) and the notice from the EPO dated 04.06.2020 concerning changes to fee payment via the automatic debiting procedure (OJ EPO 2020, A78).
See the decision of the President of the EPO and the notice from the EPO concerning payment of fees by credit card (OJ EPO 2017, A72 and OJ EPO 2020, A62).01.04.2015 (supplementary publication 3, OJ EPO 2015); amended
- by the decision dated 03.02.2016 of the President of the EPO revising point 5.3 of the ADA, (OJ EPO 2016, A14),
- by the decision of the President of the EPO dated 29.09.2016 revising point 5.3 and 7 of the ADA (OJ EPO 2016, A83 and A84),
- by the decision of the President of the EPO dated 06.07.2017 adding a new provision to the ADA (OJ EPO 2017, A44 and A45), and
- and by the notice from the EPO dated 08.06.2015 concerning abrogation of the transitional procedure for filing automatic debit orders with the EPO as receiving Office to pay fees in PCT proceedings, (OJ EPO 2015, A53).
See also the decision of the President of the EPO concerning the pilot project to introduce new means of electronic communication in EPO proceedings (OJ EPO 2015, A28).