1. http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/translating/officiallanguages/index_en.htm [Accessed 30.06.2015].
2. http://www.epo.org/about-us/organisation/member-states/date.html [Accessed 30.06.2015]
3. Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention, EPC) of 5 October 1973, as revised by the Act revising Article 63 EPC of 17 December 1991, and the Act revising the EPC of 29 November 2000, Article 14(2).
4. ibid, Article 14(6).
5. Personal communication, Klaus Baumeister, EPO.