4.3.1 Dispensing with the supplementary European search report 

The Administrative Council has decided that no supplementary European search report is to be drawn up for an international application if:

(i)the EPO was the ISA or the SISA (OJ EPO 2009, 594; OJ EPO 2010, 316)

(ii)the Swedish Intellectual Property Office, the Austrian Patent Office or the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office was the ISA and it was filed before 1 July 2005 (OJ EPO 1979, 248; OJ EPO 1995, 511; OJ EPO 2012, 212 and OJ EPO 2012, 219).

The search fee may be reduced in these cases (see A‑X, 9.5.1A‑X, 9.3.1).

If no supplementary European search report is drawn up, the application, upon effective entry into the European phase, immediately falls within the competence of the examining division and will, after formalities examination, be passed on for substantive examination on condition that a request for examination has been validly filed.