Chapter 5

1. The Office shall examine whether the application complies with the requirements laid down in Article 36(1) for the accordance of a date of filing.

1. Where, in carrying out the examination under Article 45, the Office notes that there are deficiencies which may be corrected, the Office shall…

1. If the Office, in carrying out the examination pursuant to Article 45, notices that the design for which protection is sought:

If the requirements that an application for a registered Community design must satisfy have been fulfilled and to the extent that the application has…

Upon registration, the Office shall publish the registered Community design in the Community Designs Bulletin as mentioned in Article 73(1). The…

1. The applicant for a registered Community design may request, when filing the application, that the publication of the registered Community design…