• Resources of the public collection are accessible to the scientific community under the conditions of the general BCCM Material Transfer Agreement (MTA), if necessary amended with additional conditions possibly already attached to the biological material. They are distributed for a fee covering expenses. See pricelist.
  
  
• The biological resources are made available to all bona fide individuals operating in a professional environment suitable for handling living material of the biohazard group involved.
  
  
• Recipients should verify that they are allowed to receive microbial resources under national and international regulations.
  
  
• To avoid delay in delivery, copies of appropriate certificates or import licenses, specific mailing tags or shipment regulations should accompany the order.
  
  
• First order of your company/laboratory
  First orders should be sent by mail or fax, written on paper with the customer's official letterhead, signed by an authorized person.
  With your first delivery, a customer number will be allocated to your company/laboratory.
  
  
• Further orders
  Further orders can be made using the shopping cart below provided you enter your customer number.
  
  

• by clicking below on the hyperlink "Order & checkout" related to the collection you want to send an order to
  
  
• by querying the BCCM online catalogues and clicking on the hyperlink "add to shopping cart" related to the strains/plasmids that are displayed in the query results; to search a catalogue click below on the hyperlink "catalogue search form" related to the collection you want to send an order to

The shopping cart can contain simultaneously strains/plasmids from different BCCM collections and the checkout will have to be made per collection, individually.

To check out and send the order click below on the hyperlink "Order & checkout" related to the collection you want to send an order to.

The items you added to the shopping cart will remain in the cart until either you check out and send the order, or you remove them from the cart manually, or you close all your browser windows.