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 Decree of 13 April  2018: Use of the  
platform "Pago  PA’ for payment  
digitised of industrial property fees and taxes. 
(18A02880) (Official Journal No 91 of 19 April 2018)  
THE DIRECTOR -GENERAL 
for the fight against counterfeiting  
Having REGARD TO Legislative Decree No 30 of 10 February 2005 laying 
down the Industrial Property Code, pursuant to Article 15 of Law No 273 
of 12 December 2002, as amended by Legislative Decree No 131 of 13 
August 2010;  
Having regard to Legislative Decree No 82 of 7 March  2005 entitled 
‘Digital Administration Code’, as amended;  
Whereas Article 5 of Legislative Decree No 82 of 7 March 2005 
provides that PPAAs are bound to accept, through the PagoPA platform 
provided by AGID, the payments due to them, in any way, through 
electronic payment systems;  
Having REGARD TO Presidential Decree No 445 of 28 December 2000 
laying down the consolidated text of the laws and regulations on 
administrative documentation;  
Having REGARD TO Decree No 33 of the Minister for Economic 
Development o f 13 January 2010, as amended and supplemented, concerning 
the ‘Regulation implementing the Industrial Property Code’;  
Having REGARD TO the Decree of the Minister for Economic Development 
of 21 March 2013 concerning the new online filing of applications 
relating to patent applications for industrial inventions and utility 
models, applications for the registration of industrial designs and 
trade marks, and property titles granted;  
Whereas the above -mentioned Decree of 21 March 2013 provides that the 
start of  the new online filing procedures is to be governed by a decree 
of the Director -General for Combating Counterfeiting — Italian Patents 
and Trade Marks Office of the Ministry of Economic Development;  
Having REGARD TO the Decree of the Director -General for C ombating 
Counterfeiting — Italian Patents and Trade Marks Office of the Ministry 
of Economic Development of 11 July 2014 initiating the new procedure for 
filing electronically the translation into Italian of the claims of the 
European patent application, a s provided for in Article 54 of the 
Industrial Property Code, and the translation into Italian, for the 
purposes of validation, of the text of the published European patent 
referred to in Article 56 of the Industrial Property Code;  
Having REGARD TO the dec ision of the Director of the Revenue Agency 
and the Director -General for Combating Counterfeiting — Italian Patents 
and Trade Marks Office of the Ministry of Economic Development of 20 
November 2014, published in Official Gazette of the Italian Republic No  
281 of 3 December 2014 concerning the payment by means of Form F24 of 
fees and charges relating to industrial property titles;  
Having REGARD TO the Decree of the Director -General for Combating 
Counterfeiting — Italian Patents and Trade Marks Office of the  Ministry 
of Economic Development of 26 January 2015, published in Official 
Gazette of the Italian Republic No 24 of 30 January 2015, which 
initiated the new procedure for the filing, by electronic means, of 
patent applications for industrial inventions an d utility models, 
applications for registration of designs and trade marks, applications 
relating to those applications and the industrial property titles 
granted;  
Having REGARD TO the Decree of the Director -General for Combating 
Counterfeiting — Italian P atents and Trade Marks Office of the Ministry 
of Economic Development of 24 February 2015, published in Official 
Gazette of the Italian Republic of 27 February 2015, amending the 2 
 aforementioned Directorial Decree of 26 January 2015;  
Having REGARD TO the De cree of the Director -General for Combating 
Counterfeiting — Italian Patents and Trade Marks Office of the Ministry 
of Economic Development of 15 May 2015, published in Official Gazette 
of the Italian Republic of 22 May 20015, No 117, providing that, as 
from 18 May 2015, fees for the maintenance of industrial property 
certificates relating to supplementary certificates for medicinal 
products and plant protection products, new plant varieties and 
topographies of semiconductor products may also be paid by mean s of the 
procedures laid down in Article 4(1) of the Decree of the Director -
General for Combating Counterfeiting — Italian Patents and Trade Marks 
Office of the Ministry of Economic Development of 26 January 2015;  
Having REGARD TO the Decree of the Directo r-General for Combating 
Counterfeiting — Italian Patents and Trade Marks Office of the Ministry 
of Economic Development of 29 October 2015, published in Official 
Gazette of the Italian Republic No 258 of 5 November 2015, extending 
the new procedure for fil ing, by electronic means, applications for 
supplementary certificates for medicinal products and plant protection 
products, of new plant varieties, for topographies of semiconductor 
products, to appeals to the Board of Appeals, to the notices of 
opposition  to the registration of trade marks and to applications 
relating to those applications;  
Decree: 
Art. 1 
Payment of fees and taxes  
1. From 7 May 2018, the payment of fees and taxes on electronic 
deposits of all applications for securities in industrial property and 
related applications can be made online via the PagoPA platform, at the 
same time as the deposit itself, by means of a credi t card, bank 
transfer or other payment method provided for therein, using one of the 
banks that have joined that platform.  
2. In the following cases, the payment of industrial property duties 
and taxes shall continue to be made exclusively in the previous man ner: 
a) electronic filing of appeals to the Board of Appeals and 
Oppositions  registration of trade marks;  
b) paper filing of all applications and applications made at the 
CCIAA or by means of  postal service;  
c) maintenance of all titles of industrial property.  
3. The payment of fees and taxes  for deposits of  of which
 paragraph 1  
you can continue to be carried out  also
 through the former 
mode that requires the use of the F24 Model.  
Art. 2 
Receipt of payment  
online fees and taxes  
1. In relation to the payments made pursu ant to Article 1(1),  
the deposit system sends a receipt to the e -mail address communicated 
by the user when registering to the system.  
of payment to the Single 
Identifier to the amount 
of payment, payment 
refers. containing  the information  related 
of payment (IUV), to causal and 
as well as the application number  a of 
which the 
 
Rome, 13 April 2018  
The Director -General shall: Gulino Loredana