2.3 Search reports 

The official European and international (PCT) search reports are normally published together with the European and international applications and are included in the search files together with these applications. The official search reports for national applications are also included in these files where they are publicly available, as are any unofficial search reports. Search reports that are not normally or not yet publicly available in the form of a published document are available to the search division separately from the state-of-the-art documents, but it is not compulsory to search them for all applications.