OJ EPO 2020, A115 - Notice from the President of the European Patent Office dated 16 October 2020 concerning the days on which EPO filing offices are closed in 2021

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1. Under Rule 134(1) EPC, time limits expiring on a day on which at least one EPO filing office is not open for receipt of documents (closing days) are extended until the first day thereafter on which all the filing offices are open for receipt of documents and on which ordinary mail is delivered. For PCT proceedings, the list below applies mutatis mutandis for the purposes of Rule 80.5 PCT.

2. In 2021, as hitherto, the EPO's filing offices in Munich, The Hague and Berlin will be closed for the receipt of documents on every Saturday and Sunday. The other closing days in 2021 are listed below.

Days		Munich	The Hague	Berlin
New Year's Day	01.01.2021	■	■	■
Epiphany	06.01.2021	■
International Women's Day	08.03.2021			■
Good Friday	02.04.2021	■	■	■
Easter Monday	05.04.2021	■	■	■
King's Day	27.04.2021		■
Liberation Day	05.05.2021		■
Ascension Day	13.05.2021	■	■	■
Whit Monday	24.05.2021	■	■	■
Corpus Christi	03.06.2021	■
All Saints' Day	01.11.2021	■
Christmas Eve	24.12.2021	■	■	■
Bridging day	27.12.2021	■	■	■
Bridging day	28.12.2021	■	■	■
Bridging day	29.12.2021	■	■	■
Bridging day	30.12.2021	■	■	■
New Year's Eve	31.12.2021	■	■	■

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/official-journal/2020/10/a115.html

Date retrieved: 19 May 2021

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