COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) .../... laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on European Union designs

Ref. Ares(2025)4976621 - 23/06/2025 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX […](2025) XXX draft COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... of XXX laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on European Union designs This draft has not been adopted or endorsed by the European Commission. Any views expressed are the preliminary views of the Commission services and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the Commission. COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... of XXX laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on European Union designs THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on European Union designs1, and in particular Article 28a, Article 36a, Article 37a, Article 42a, Article 44a, Article 49a, Article 50c, Article 50f, Article 50h, Article 51a, Article 70a, Article 73a, Article 75a, Article 98a, and Article 105a thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 created a system specific to the Union for the protection of designs to be obtained at the level of the Union on the basis of an application to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (‘the Office’). (2) Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 of the European Parliament and of the Council2 aligned the powers...