Press Release: Industrial property: Commission welcomes Parliament support on proposals linking EU design registration system with WIPO international system

The European Commission welcomed the European Parliament's vote on 18 May 2006 supporting the Commission's proposals to link the 'Community Design' system, which protects designs within the EU, with the international design registration system of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The proposals would allow companies, with a single application, to obtain protection of a design not only throughout the EU with the Community Design, but also in the countries which are members of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs. The first proposal related to the accession of the European Community (EC) to the Geneva Act. The second proposal contained the necessary provisions to give effect to that accession, in particular through an amendment of Council Regulation No 6/2002 on Community Designs.

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European Commission: PreLex: COM(2006) 689: Proposal for a Council Regulation ... to give effect to the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs, 22.12.05 http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/liste_resultats.cfm?CL=en&ReqId=0&DocType=COM&DocYear=2005&DocNum=0689

European Commission: PreLex: COM(2006) 687: Proposal for a Council Decision approving the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs, adopted in Geneva on 2 July 1999, 22.12.05 http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/liste_resultats.cfm?CL=en&ReqId=0&DocType=COM&DocYear=2005&DocNum=0687

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