Judgment_paragraph 71 · Santa Conte v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-683/18)

71In that regard, it should be noted that Regulation 2017/1001 does not contain a definition of the concept of ‘public policy’. In those circumstances and in view of EU law as it now stands, described in paragraph 50 above, and the wording of Article 7(2) of that regulation, according to which paragraph 1 of that article is to apply notwithstanding that the grounds of non-registrability obtain in only part of the Union, it must be concluded that EU law does not impose a uniform scale of values and acknowledges that the requirements of public policy may vary from one country to another and from one era to another. Member States essentially retain the freedom to determine what constitutes those requirements in accordance with their national needs. Thus, although the requirements of public policy do not cover economic interests or the mere prevention of disturbance of the social order which any infringement of the law involves, they may cover protection of the various interests that the Member State concerned considers to be fundamental interests in accordance with its own system of values (see, by analogy, Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe in Joined Cases K. and H. (Right of residence and allegations of war crimes), C‑331/16 and C‑366/16, EU:C:2017:973, points 60 and 63 and the case-law cited).