Chapter 8

Decisions of the Office shall state the reasons on which they are based. They shall be based only on reasons or evidence on which the parties…

1. In proceedings before it the Office shall examine the facts of its own motion. However, in proceedings relating to a declaration of invalidity…

1. If the Office considers that oral proceedings would be expedient, they shall be held either at the instance of the Office or at the request of any…

1. In any proceedings before the Office the means of giving or obtaining evidence shall include the following:

The Office shall, as a matter of course, notify those concerned of decisions and summonses and of any notice or other communication from which a time…

1. The applicant for or holder of a registered Community design or any other party to proceedings before the Office who, in spite of all due care…

In the absence of procedural provisions in this Regulation, the implementing regulation, the fees regulation or the rules of procedure of the Boards…

1. Rights of the Office to the payment of fees shall be barred four years from the end of the calendar year in which the fee fell due.

1. The losing party in proceedings for a declaration of invalidity of a registered Community design or appeal proceedings shall bear the fees…

1. Any final decision of the Office fixing the amount of costs shall be enforceable.

The Office shall keep a register to be known as the register of Community designs, which shall contain those particulars of which the registration is…

1. This Office shall periodically publish a Community Designs Bulletin containing entries open to public inspection in the register as well as other…

1. The files relating to applications for registered Community designs which have not yet been published or the files relating to registered…

Unless otherwise provided in this Regulation or in national laws, the Office and the courts or authorities of the Member States shall on request give…

1. The Office and the central industrial property offices of the Member States shall despatch to each other on request and for their own use one or…

1. Subject to paragraph 2, no person shall be compelled to be represented before the Office.

1. Representation of natural or legal persons in proceedings before the Office under this Regulation may only be undertaken by: