CCAP is an International Depository Authority (IDA) under the ‘Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedures and Regulations’. Copies of the treaty can be obtained from the World Intellectual Property Organisation, 34 Chemin des Colombettes, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. As an IDA, CCAP can accept the following organisms:
- Freshwater and terrestrial algae and cyanobacteria
- Non-pathogenic free-living protozoa
- Marine algae and cyanobacteria, other than large seaweeds
Click here to download A Guide to Depositing Microorganisms with the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP) Under the Terms of the Budapest Treaty. This document contains the fee schedule. Updated September 2016.