Are reductions of the examination fee possible?
5.10.3.2 Reduction if IPER was issued by the EPO
5.10.009The examination fee is reduced by 75% where the EPO acting as IPEA has already drawn up an international preliminary examination report in respect of the relevant Euro-PCT application unless in the European phase the applicant requests examination of parts of the international application that are exceptionally not covered in the IPER (see points 4.2.027 and 4.2.037 ff).
5.10.010If the conditions for both this reduction and the 30% reduction under the language arrangement (see point 5.10.008) are fulfilled, the examination fee is first reduced by 75%. The 30% reduction is then applied to the resulting total, and not to the full fee. The total reduction in relation to the full fee is therefore 82.5%.