Datum Bat Anmelde-Nr Date cf Form 1507 shest 1 Applicaton bate Feulle ‘The examination is being cartied out on the following application documents Description, Pages 1-69 as published Claims, Numbers 145 filed with entry into the regional phase before the EPO Drawings, Sheets wt as published Reference is made to documents D1-Dé6 and to the Supplementary European Search Report wherein the most relevant passages thereof are cited. The numbering will be adhered to during the rest of the procedure. D1 WO 97/16381 A1 (Neozyme International Inc [US]) 9 May 1997 p2 WO 2013/180756 At (Neozyme International Inc [US}) 5 December 2013 D3 CA 1 124 459 A (Shell Oil Co) 1 June 1982 D4 WO 94/12718 At (Int Paper Co [US] 9 June 1994 D5 WO 2005/019527 At (Kemira Chemicals Inc [US]) 3 March 2005 Dé US 6 001 218 A (Hsu et al. [US]) 14 December 1999 The patent application relates to a method of separating fibres from pulp, to a method of removing impurities and/or contaminates from a pulp or paper material as well as to a method of removing ink from pulp or paper material, whereby in each method an effective amount of a papermaking additive composition is added to the pulp during the pulping or paper production phase, wherein the papermaking additive composition comprises a treated, fermented microbial supernatant and one or more non-ionic surfactants.