68.3

a) The amount of the additional fees due for International preliminary examination under Article 34(3)(a) shall be determined by the competent International Preliminary Examining Authority.

b) The additional fees due for International preliminary examination under Article 34(3)(a) shall be payable direct to the International Preliminary Examining Authority.

c) Any applicant may pay the additional fees under protest, that is, accompanied by a reasoned statement to the effect that the International application complies with the requirement of unity of invention or that the amount of the required additional fees is excessive. Such protest shall be examined by a review body constituted in the framework of the International Preliminary Examining Authority which, to the extent that it finds the protest justified, shall order the total or partial reimbursement to the applicant of the additional fees. On the request of the applicant, the text of both the protest and the decision thereon shall be notified to the elected Offices as an annex to the International preliminary examination report.

d) The membership of the review body referred to in paragraph (c) may include, but shall not be limited to, the person who made the decision which is the subject of the protest.

e) The examination of a protest referred to in paragraph (c) may be subjected by the International Preliminary Examining Authority to the payment to it, for its own benefit, of a protest fee. Where the applicant has not, within the time limit under Rule 68.2(v), paid any required protest fee, the protest shall be considered not to have been made and the International Preliminary Examining Authority shall so declare. The protest fee shall be refunded to the applicant where the review body referred to in paragraph (c) finds that the protest was entirely justified.