On April 7 and 8 the meeting of the EAPO delegation consisting of Vice-President of EAPO Dr. Khabibullo Fayazov, Director of Information and Search Systems Department Dr. Petr Dzegelenok, Director of Office Work Automation Department Dr. Saparbay Eminov and Chief Specialist of Information and Search Systems Department Mr. Andrey Sekretov with specialists of the EPO was hold in the European Patent Office, Directorate General 1, The Hague (The Netherlands).

In the course of discussion the following issues were considered: participation of the EAPO and EAPC member states in Esp@cenet project, connection of the EAPO to Patnet and use of services of this network, cooperation prospects on matters of electronic filing, studying of ePhoenix functionality and technology of production of CD-ROMs in Espace-Mimosa format.