Section 1 ( 4 ) applies in relation to proceedings before a relevant convention court under the European Patent Convention as it applies to a judicial proceeding in a tribunal of a foreign state.

* October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.

Whether a patent application relates to an invention is governed by Article 52 of the European Patent Convention, that excludes e. g. discoveries as such and software as such.

In 1995, the European Patent Office ( EPO ) granted a patent on an anti-fungal product derived from neem to the US Department of Agriculture and W. R. Grace and Company.

* European Patent Convention, a convention instituting the European Patent Organisation

Letter-bombs, along with anti-personnel mines, are typical examples of subject-matter excluded from patentability under the European Patent Convention, because the publication or exploitation of such inventions are contrary to the " ordre public "

Patent applications were filed in European countries ( priority: Switzerland ), the United States, and Japan, and the patents transferred to Daimler-Benz.

* European Patent Agency, now European Patent Office

* European Patent Attorney, a legal specialization for Representation before the European Patent Office

In Europe, " computer programs as such " are excluded from patentability and European Patent Office policy is consequently that a program for a computer is not patentable if it does not have the potential to cause a " further technical effect " beyond the inherent technical interactions between hardware and software.

However, some regional offices exist, such as the European Patent Office ( EPO ), which act as supranational bodies with the power to grant patents which can then be brought into effect in the member states, and an international procedure also exists for filing a single international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty ( PCT ), which can then give rise to patent protection in most countries.

Within European Union member states, the EPO and other national patent offices have issued many patents for inventions involving software since the European Patent Convention ( EPC ) came into force in the late 1970s.

A summary of the developments concerning patentability of computer programs under the European Patent Convention is given in ( see G 3 / 08 ) as a response of the Enlarged Board of Appeal to questions filed by the President of the European Patent Office according to Art.

The city is the headquarters of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market and a sizeable population of European public workers live here.

Official decennial censuses have been taken in Hungary since 1870 ; the latest one – in line with the recommendations of the United Nations and the Statistical Office of the European Union – was carried out in 2001.

** The permanent secretariat of the ECC is the European Communications Office ( ECO )

* Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium in Brussels

According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:

Luxembourg is the site of the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Auditors, the Statistical Office of the European Communities ( Eurostat ) and other vital EU organs.

* The Office of Infrastructure and Logistics ( European Commission ) in Luxembourg

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

Jenkins had wanted to become Foreign Secretary, but accepted an appointment as President of the European Commission ( succeeding François-Xavier Ortoli ) after Callaghan appointed Anthony Crosland to the Foreign Office.

* European Police Office, ( Europol )

* Treaties Office at the European Union

UNRRA Headquarters was in Washington, D. C., and the European Regional Office was set up in London.

Ahtisaari's office — the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) — is located in Vienna and includes liaison staff from NATO, the European Union and the United States.

In the following elections, the Socialists lost their decades old majority to the new People's Party and the incoming Prodi Commission was quick to establish the new European Anti-fraud Office ( OLAF ).

* European Radiocommunications Office ( ERO )

In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki ōbun inji-ki ( 九七式欧文印字機 ) (" System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters ") or Angōki Taipu-B ( 暗号機 タイプB ) (" Type B Cipher Machine "), codenamed Purple by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office just before and during World War II.

Broadcasters are mainly government-controlled ; the state-run Tunisian Radio and Television Establishment ( ERTT ) operates 2 national television networks, several national radio networks, and a number of regional radio stations ; 1 TV and 3 radio stations are privately-owned and report domestic news stories directly from the official Tunisian news agency ; the state retains control of broadcast facilities and transmitters through L ' Office National de la Telediffusion ; Tunisians also have access to Egyptian, pan-Arab, and European satellite TV channels ( 2007 )

Vienna has regained a part of its former international stature by hosting international organizations, such as the United Nations ( United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Office at Vienna and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United European Gastroenterology Federation.

There is no EU-wide register of SEs ( an SE is registered on the national register of the member state in which it has its head office ), but each registration is to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The registration and completion of the liquidation of an SE must be disclosed for information purposes in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Official emblem of the European Investment Fund

The Official Journal of the European Union publishes annual reports on food irradiation, the current report covers the period from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010 and compiles information from 27 Member States.

* Official page of PSL on the European People's Party website

* Official website of the European Court of Human Rights

* Official site of the European Investment Bank

* Original texts of IAS / IFRS, SIC and IFRIC adopted by the Commission of the European Communities and published in Official Journal of the European Union http :// ec. europa. eu / internal_market / accounting / ias_en. htm # adopted-commission

* Initial publication of the International Accounting Standards in the Official Journal of the European Union PB L 261 13-10-2003

* Official European Union Antitrust site

Established in 2008 in The Hague, the Assemblée des francophones fonctionnaires des organisations internationales ( AFFOI ) ( Official Website ) gathers international civil servants from all international organisations of the world-such as United Nations, the European Commission ot the African Union-and coming from the member countries of the Francophonie.

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Official bodies such as the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Test Methods of the European Commission, the Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods in the US, ZEBET in Germany, and the Japanese Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods ( among others ) also promote and disseminate the 3Rs.

* Official website of the European School, Culham

( BBC ) Official Peer-Reviewed Journal of the International Federation for Artificial Organs ( members of the Federation are: the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, the European Society for Artificial Organs and the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs ), the International Faculty for Artificial Organs, and the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps.

* Rail Europe Official site, US distributor of the European Railroads.

* Members of the most recent United States and European Ryder Cup Teams, provided they are in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking as of one week before the start of the tournament.

* an abbreviation for the Official Journal of the European Union

* European Patent Office, Examination of computer-implemented inventions at the European Patent Office with particular attention to computer-implemented business methods, Official Journal EPO, 11 / 2007, pp 594 – 600.

Invitations to tender for the two principal tunnelling contracts were published in the Official Journal of the European Union in August 2009.