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Rules relating to Fees

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Article 538
Payment of fees

(1)39 The fees due to the Office shall be paid in euro by payment or transfer to a bank account held by the Office. 

(2)40 The President of the Office may allow other methods of paying fees than those set out in paragraph 1.

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

39See notice from the EPO of 23.11.2020 concerning improvements in the online service for paying fees by credit card and the introduction of a new functionality facilitating payments by bank transfer (OJ EPO 2020, A130).See notice from the EPO of 19.07.2022 concerning Central Fee Payment (OJ EPO 2022, A81) and notice from the EPO of 02.03.2022 concerning the extension of the functionalities of Central Fee Payment (OJ EPO 2022, A25).
See notice from the EPO of 20.08.2019 concerning the fee refund procedures (OJ EPO 2019, A82).

40See arrangements for deposit accounts valid as of 01.10.2019 10.09.2022 (supplementary publication 4, OJ EPO 2019supplementary publication 3, OJ EPO 2022), decision of the President of the EPO of 04.06.2020 amending Annex A.1 and Annex A.2 to the arrangements for deposit accounts (ADA) (OJ EPO 2020, A77) and notice from the EPO of 04.06.2020 concerning changes to fee payment via the automatic debiting procedure (OJ EPO 2020, A78) and, decision of the President of EPO of 18.03.2021 amending the Arrangements for deposit accounts (ADA) and Annex A.1 to the ADA – Arrangements for the automatic debiting procedure (AAD) (OJ EPO 2021, A26) and decision of the President of the EPO of 13.07.2021 concerning revision of the Arrangements for deposit accounts (ADA) (OJ EPO 2021, A60).
See decision of the President of the EPO of 22.08.2017 (OJ EPO 2017, A72) and notice from the EPO of 23.09.2021 16.02.2022 (OJ EPO 2021, A73OJ EPO 2022, A18) concerning the payment of fees by credit card.

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