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Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs article 77 CELEX: 02002R0006-20250501 General principles of representation
1. Subject to paragraph 2, no person shall be compelled to be represented before the Office. 2. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, second subparagraph, of this Article, natural or legal persons having neither their domicile nor their principal place of business or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in the EEA shall be represented before the Office in accordance with Article 78(1) in all proceedings provided for by this Regulation, other than the filing of an application for a registered EU design. 3. Natural or legal persons having their domicile or principal place of business or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in the EEA may be represented before the Office by an employee.
An employee of a legal person to which this paragraph applies may also represent other legal persons which have economic connections with the first legal person, even if those other legal persons have neither their domicile nor their principal place of business nor a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment within the EEA. |
Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs article 77 CELEX: 02002R0006-20250501 Employees who represent persons within the meaning of this paragraph shall, at the request of the Office or, where appropriate, of the party to the proceedings, provide the Office with a signed authorisation for insertion in the files. 4. Where there is more than one applicant or more than one third party acting in common, a common representative shall be appointed. |