# DIRECTIVE 98/44/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions, Article 3

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. For the purposes of this Directive, inventions which are new, which involve an inventive step and which are susceptible of industrial application shall be patentable even if they concern a product consisting of or containing biological material or a process by means of which biological material is produced, processed or used.
2. Biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process may be the subject of an invention even if it previously occurred in nature.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/44/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-44/article-3
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