Thursday, August 15, 2019 Rule 25(3) IPREE amended

A Decision of the Supervisory Board amending Rule 25 of the Implementing provisions to the Regulation on the European qualifying examination for professional representatives has been published in the Official Journal - OJ 2019, A66.

The decision amends Rule 25(3) IPREE with immediate effect.

Earlier Rule 25(3) read:
"(3) Candidates are expected to put themselves in the position of the representative and, using only the information provided by the client, prepare a notice of opposition which when typed would be ready for filing. The pre-printed opposition form provided may be used, but it is not obligatory and marks will not be lost if it is not used."

Amended Rule 25(3) IPREE reads:

"(3) Candidates are expected to put themselves in the position of the representative and, using only the information provided by the client, prepare a notice of opposition which when typed would be ready for filing."

I.e., the text “The pre-printed opposition form provided may be used, but it is not obligatory and marks will not be lost if it is not used.” has been deleted from the Rule.

No further information is available yet as to the reasons for this change and the effects, e.g., as to whether the pre-printed opposition form will still be handed out as part of the C paper, whether it will be allowed to bring (and hand-in) a copy yourself to the exam (probably not in view of Art. 6 and 9(d) from the Instructions to candidates concerning the conduct of the European qualifying examination), or whether it is still necessary to provide all the infornation usually provided by candidates on the form to get an admissible opposition (esp. the information referred to in Art. 99(1), Rule 76(2)(c) and Rule 77(1) EPC) and a signature.

(15.08.2019)

Update 30.09.2019:
The following Notice from the Examination Board of the European qualifying examination (EQE) was published om the EQE website today: