European trade associations Cerame-Unie, Euratex, FESI and TIE have called on representatives of EU member states to take the necessary measures to enable adoption of the proposed Regulation on Community Design. The Regulation sets up a registration system for Community-wide legal protection of designs to be administered by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), which currently administers the Community trademark system. The system will operate in parallel with national schemes for protecting designs.

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