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CHAPTER XVU.K.COMMUNITY DESIGNS BULLETIN AND DATA BASE

Article 70U.K.Community Designs Bulletin

1.The Office shall determine the frequency of the publication of the Community Designs Bulletin and the manner in which such publication shall take place.

2.Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 50(2) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 and subject to Articles 14 and 16 of this Regulation relating to deferment of publication, the Community Designs Bulletin shall contain publications of registration and of entries made in the Register as well as other particulars relating to registrations of designs whose publication is prescribed by Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 or by this Regulation.

3.Where particulars whose publication is prescribed in Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 or in this Regulation are published in the Community Designs Bulletin, the date of issue shown on the Bulletin shall be taken as the date of publication of the particulars.

4.The information the publication of which is prescribed in Articles 14 and 16 shall, where appropriate, be published in all the official languages of the Community.

Article 71U.K.Database

1.The Office shall maintain an electronic database with the particulars of applications for registration of Community designs and entries in the Register. The Office may, subject to the restrictions prescribed by Article 50(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, make available the contents of that database for direct access or on CD-ROM or in any other machine-readable form.

2.The President of the Office shall determine the conditions of access to the database and the manner in which the contents of this database may be made available in machine-readable form, including the charges for those acts.

[F13. The Office shall provide information on international registrations of designs designating the Community in the form of an electronic link to the searchable database maintained by the International Bureau.]