The Budget Committee is one of the three governing bodies of the UPC next to the Administrative Committee and the Advisory Committee.
The main tasks of the Budget Committee are in particular,
- to adopt the budget of the Court as proposed by the Presidium;
- to approve the annual accounts and the annual report of the Court as submitted by the Presidium.
The Budget Committee comprises representatives from each state in which the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) is in force as well as observers. It is also possible for the Budget Committee to invite experts to its meetings.
A list of all the representatives can be found below.
Each state that is a member of the Committee has one vote. The Budget Committee adopts its decisions by a simple majority. However, a majority of three-quarters is needed for the adoption of the budget.
The Budget Committee elects a chairperson from amongst the members for a renewable term of three years. The Chairperson of the Budget Committee is currently Mr Bruno Leboullenger (FR), and the Deputy Chaiperson is Theis Bødker Jensen (DK).
The Budget Committee has its own Rules of Procedure.
COMPOSITION OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE
Chairperson/ Deputy Chairperson
- Chairperson:
- Mr Bruno Leboullenger (FR)
- Deputy Chairperson:
- Mr Theis Bødker Jensen (DK)
Representatives of Contracting Member States
- AT: Austria
- Member:
- Mr Gerard Pilz
- Alternate member:
- Mr Marcus Ernst
- BE: Belgium
- Member:
- Mr Denis Mailleux
- Alternate member:
- Ben de Temmerman
- BG: Bulgaria
- Member:
- Ms Olya Dimitrova
- Alternate member:
- Ms Maya Filipova-Demireva
- DK: Denmark
- Member:
- Mr Emil Nørgaard Larsen
- Alternate member:
- Mr Flemming Kønig Mejl
- EE: Estonia
- Member:
- Ms Aasa Süld
- FI: Finland
- Member:
- [active]
- Alternate member:
- [active]
- FR: France
- Member:
- Mr Max Brunner
- DE: Germany
- Member:
- Mr Christian Wichard
- Alternate member:
- Mr Johannes Karcher
- IT: Italy
- Member:
- Mr Raffaele Farella
- Alternate member:
- Mr Vincenzo Rosa
- LV: Latvia
- Member:
- Agris Batalauskis
- LT: Lithuania
- Member:
- Rosita Pletienė
- Alternate member:
- Artūras Dembskis
- LU: Luxembourg
- Member:
- Mr Jean Olinger
- Alternate member:
- Lisa Brouxel
- MT: Malta
- Member:
- Vanessa Grech
- Alternate member:
- Eunice-Maria Fiorini
- NL: Netherlands
- Member:
- Mr Thijs van den Heuvel
- Alternate member:
- Mr Paul van Beukering
- PT: Portugal
- Member:
- Isabel Namora
- Alternate member:
- Jorge Tavares
- SI: Slovenia
- Member:
- Ms Jana Lovšin
- Alternate member:
- Daša Vidmar Mikšić
- SE: Sweden
- Member:
- Mr Petter Söderbäck
- Alternate member
- Ms Clara Cederberg
- RO: Romania
Observers Member States
- Czech Republic (CZ)
- Hungary (HU)
- Ireland (IE)
- Poland (PL)
- Slovakia (SK)
- Spain (ES)
Other participants
Unified Patent Court:
President of the Court of Appeal and President of the Court of First Instance, assisted by other members of the Presidium and by officials and staff of the Unified Patent Court.
Chairperson of the Administrative Committee: Mr Johannes Karcher (DE)
Chairperson of the Advisory Committee: Mr Willem Hoyng
Observer intergovernmental organisations
- European Commission;
- European Patent Office – also acting as experts in the Budget Committee ;