The fees guidance currently applicable is set out in OJ EPO 2014, A37, taking into consideration the changed amounts of fees for international applications (OJ EPO 2014, A121 and OJ EPO 2015, A24).
1. The amounts of the fees and reductions listed under point 3 are fixed by WIPO and expressed in Swiss currency (Rule 96 PCT). However, where these fees must be paid to the EPO - in its function as receiving Office or IPEA - they must be paid in euros.
The Patent and Trade Mark Office of the Republic of San Marino (USBM) has informed us as follows about an agreement between San Marino and Italy which entered into force on adoption of San Marino's Council decree No. 217 of 23 December 2014 and concerns the interpretation of Article 43 of the Convention on Friendship and Good Neighbourhood of 1939, governing trade marks and patents:
Full title: OJ EPO 2015, A36 - Notice of the European Patent Office dated 30 March 2015 concerning amendments to Rules 2, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 133 and 134 EPC, and the decisions of the President of the European Patent Office dated 11 March 2015 on the late receipt of documents and on the pilot project to introduce new means of electronic communication