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Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs article 98 CELEX: 02002R0006-20250501 Language of proceedings
1. The application for a registered EU design ◄ shall be filed in one of the official languages of the Union ◄ . 2. The applicant must indicate a second language which shall be a language of the Office the use of which he accepts as a possible language of proceedings before the Office.
If the application was filed in a language which is not one of the languages of the Office, the Office shall arrange to have the application translated into the language indicated by the applicant. 3. Where the applicant for a registered EU design ◄ is the sole party to proceedings before the Office, the language of proceedings shall be the language used for filing the application. If the application was made in a language other then the languages of the Office, the Office may send written communications to the applicant in the second language indicated by the applicant in his application. |
Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs article 98 CELEX: 02002R0006-20250501 4. In the case of invalidity proceedings, the language of proceedings shall be the language used for filing the application for a registered EU design ◄ if this is one of the languages of the Office. If the application was made in a language other than the languages of the Office, the language of proceedings shall be the second language indicated in the application.
The application for a declaration of invalidity shall be filed in the language of proceedings.
Where the language of proceedings is not the language used for filing the application for a registered EU design ◄ , the right holder of the EU design ◄ may file observations in the language of filing. The Office shall arrange to have those observations translated into the language of proceedings. |
Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs article 98 CELEX: 02002R0006-20250501 The implementing regulation may provide that the translation expenses to be borne by the Office may not, subject to a derogation granted by the Office where justified by the complexity of the case, exceed an amount to be fixed for each category of proceedings on the basis of the average size of statements of case received by the Office. Expenditure in excess of this amount may be allocated to the losing party in accordance with Article 70. 5. Parties to invalidity proceedings may agree that a different official language of the Union ◄ is to be the language of the proceedings. |