4.1.5Fee-related support for small entities 

4.1.011Irrespective of your nationality or domicile, if you are a micro-entity ‒ that is, a microenterprise, natural person, non-profit organisation, university or public research organisation ‒ and you have filed fewer than five patent applications in the preceding five years, you are entitled to a 30% reduction in the main procedural fees. These include the filing fee, the search fee, the examination fee, the designation fee, the fee for grant and the renewal fees for the European patent application. If you wish to benefit from the reduction, you must expressly declare your micro-entity status. The declaration can be made by checking the box provided in the request for grant or by filing EPO Form 1011 separately. 

In the case of co-applicants, each of them must be a micro-entity for the fee reduction to apply.