Article 3
1. Contractors shall ensure that knowledge belonging to them which could be used in an industrial or commercial application and whose nature justifies such a measure is protected to the extent required in the interests of the Community and of the contractors themselves and in accordance with any applicable legal or contractual obligation. 2. At the request or with the consent of the contractors the Commission may, to the extent required in the interests of the Community and the said contractors, take adequate steps to protect the knowledge in a country of its choice, if the contractors are unable or unwilling to secure such protection on their own behalf of the knowledge belonging to them. In such an event the Commission shall take upon itself such obligations regarding the granting of licences for the use or exploitation of the knowledge in the country concerned as would have been assumed by the contractors had they protected the knowledge on their own behalf, and the contractors concerned shall be granted a non-exclusive licence in that country, under such conditions as may be set out in the shared-cost contract.