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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003note, and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,After consulting the Customs Code Committee,Whereas:
(1)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013note establishes in its Annex I the standard form to be used for a request to the customs authorities to take action with respect to goods suspected of infringing an intellectual property right (‘the application form’), as referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) No 608/2013.
(2)In box 5 of the application form, the applicant is to indicate the type of intellectual property right(s) to which the application refers. As some types of intellectual property rights have been updated by means of legal acts listed below, it is necessary to update these types of intellectual property rights in the application form.
(3)Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote updated the terms ‘registered Community design’ and ‘unregistered Community design’ to the terms ‘registered EU design’ and ‘unregistered EU design’ respectively. Box 5 of the application form should therefore be updated accordingly.
(4)Pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, the term ‘for agricultural products and foodstuff’ was updated to ‘for agricultural products’. Therefore, that term should be updated under the heading ‘geographical indication/designation of origin’ in box 5 of the application form.
(5)Following the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, it is necessary to delete the designation ‘for aromatised drinks based on wine products’ from the application form as those products now fall under the category ‘for agricultural products’.
(6)Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote introduced a new system for the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products in the Union. As those intellectual property rights fall within the scope of Regulation (EU) No 608/2013, applicants should be able to request customs authorities to take action with respect to goods suspected of infringing those rights. Accordingly, geographical indications for craft and industrial products should be included in the types of rights to which the application refers in box 5 of the application form.
(7)Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly,
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Article 1#
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 is amended as follows:
(1)Annex I is replaced by the text in Annex I to this Regulation;
(2)In Annex III, Part I, box 6, sentence 3 is replaced by the following:‘In case Northern Ireland (XI) is indicated, the application shall be a Union application and can only be granted for protection with respect to any of the following intellectual property rights which are protected in Northern Ireland by virtue of Windsor Frameworknote:
(a)geographical indications or designations of origin protected for agricultural products and wines, as well as geographical indications protected for spirit drinks, as provided for in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote;
(b)geographical indications for craft and industrial products as provided for in Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote.
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Article 2#
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Annex I
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