Minimum Requirements for International
Searching Authorities
36.1 Definition of Minimum
Requirements
The minimum requirements referred to in
Article
16(3)(c) shall be the following:
(i)
the national Office or intergovernmental
organization must have at least 100 full-time
employees with sufficient technical
qualifications to carry out searches;
(ii)
that Office or organization must have in its
possession, or have access to, at least the
minimum documentation referred to in Rule 34, properly
arranged for search purposes, on paper, in
microform or stored on electronic media;
(iii)
that Office or organization must have a staff
which is capable of searching the required
technical fields and which has the language
facilities to understand at least those languages
in which the minimum documentation referred to in
Rule 34 is
written or is translated.