At the General Assembly of the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), held on October 4-8, 2021 in Geneva, it has been decided that the entry into force of the new WIPO Standard ST.26 should be postponed for July 1, 2022, instead of the previously planned date of the beginning of the implementation of this standard on January 1, 2022.
This postponing was necessary so that the offices could finish preparations for the transfer from WIPO ST. 25 standard to WIPO ST. 26 standard for the sake of simultaneous and coordinated transfer (so called “big-bang” date for implementation ) both on the national and on the regional and international level. In compliance with that, new standard for the preparation of list of the nucleotide and amino-acid sequences WIPO ST. 26 shall start to be implemented for the applications filed starting from July 1, 2022.