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Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs article 74c CELEX: 02002R0006-20250501 Keeping of files
1. The Office shall keep the files of any procedure relating to EU design applications and to registered EU designs. The Executive Director shall determine the form in which those files are to be kept. 2. Where the files are kept in electronic format, the electronic files, or back-up copies thereof, shall be kept indefinitely. The original documents filed by parties to the proceedings, and forming the basis of such electronic files, shall be disposed of after a period following their reception by the Office, which shall be determined by the Executive Director. 3. Where, and to the extent that, files or parts of the files are kept in any form other than electronically, documents or items of evidence constituting part of such files shall be kept for at least five years from the end of the year in which: (a) the application is rejected or withdrawn; (b) the registration of the EU design expires definitively; (c) the surrender of the registered EU design is entered in the Register pursuant to Article 51; (d) the registered EU design is definitively removed from the Register. |