Together with any comments, corrections or amendments made in response to communications by the European Patent Office under Rule 70a, paragraph 1 or Rule 70a, paragraph 2, or Rule 161, paragraph 1, the applicant may amend the description, claims and drawings of his own volition.
When filing any amendments referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3, the applicant shall identify them and indicate the basis for them in the application as filed. If the Examining Division notes a failure to meet either requirement, it may request the correction of this deficiency within a period of one month.
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r137.html
Date retrieved: 30 December 2018
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