Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 is amended as follows:

the title is replaced by the following:

‘Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 of 21 October 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on European Union designs’;

throughout the Regulation, the words ‘Community design’ are replaced by ‘EU design’ and any necessary grammatical changes are made;

in Article 24(2), Article 25(3), Article 31(6), Article 48(2), Article 62(3), Article 68(3), Article 70(4), Article 80, point (c), Article 81(2), Article 82(1), (3) and (4), the words ‘the Community’ are replaced by the words ‘the Union’ and any necessary grammatical changes are made;

Article 1 is amended as follows:

in paragraph 1, point (c) is replaced by the following:

a representation of the design in accordance with Article 4;’;

in paragraph 2, point (a) is replaced by the following:

a single description per design not exceeding 100 words explaining the representation of the design; the description must relate only to those features which appear in the reproductions of the design; it shall not contain statements as to the purported novelty, the individual character of the design, or its technical value;’;

Article 2 is amended as follows:

paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. An application may be a multiple application requesting the registration of up to 50 designs.’

paragraph 2 is deleted;

in Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4 are replaced by the following:

‘3. The indication of products shall be worded in such a way as to indicate clearly the nature of the products and to enable each product to be classified in only one class and subclass of the Locarno classification, preferably using the terms appearing in the list of products set out therein.

4. The products shall be grouped according to the classes of the Locarno classification, each group being preceded by the number of the class and subclass to which that group of products belongs and presented in the order of the classes and subclasses under that classification.’

in Article 4(1), point (d), Article 8(1), Article 41(2), Article 45(4), Article 46(5), Article 48(1), Article 51, Article 52(2), Article 58(1), (2), and (4), Article 66(4), Article 83(2), and Article 85(1), the words ‘the President’ are replaced by ‘the Executive Director’ and any necessary grammatical changes are made;

Articles 5, 6, 7 and 10 are deleted;

in Article 11, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. Where, pursuant to Article 47 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, the Office finds, in the course of carrying out the examination of grounds for non-registrability, that the design for which protection is sought does not correspond to the definition of design provided in Article 3, point (1), of that Regulation, or that the design is contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality, it shall inform the applicant that the design is non-registrable, specifying the ground for non-registrability.’

Article 11a is amended as follows:

paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:

‘1. Where, pursuant to Article 106e(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, the Office finds, in the course of carrying out an examination of an international registration, that the design for which protection is sought does not correspond to the definition of design provided for in Article 3, point (1), of that Regulation, or that the design is contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality, it shall send to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (“the International Bureau”) a notification of refusal not later than six months from the date of publication of the international registration, specifying the grounds for refusal pursuant to Article 12(2) of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs ( *1 ) (“the Geneva Act”).

2. The Office shall specify a time limit within which the holder of the international registration has the possibility, pursuant to Article 106e(2) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, to renounce the international registration in respect of the Union, to limit the international registration to one or some of the industrial designs in respect of the Union or to submit observations.

( *1 ) OJ L 386, 29.12.2006, p. 30 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2006/954/oj .’;"

paragraph 6 is replaced by the following:

‘6. Where the holder renounces the international registration or limits the international registration to one or some of the industrial designs in respect of the Union, the holder shall inform the International Bureau by way of recording procedure in accordance with Article 16(1), points (iv) and (v), of the Geneva Act. The holder can inform the Office by submitting a corresponding statement.’

Article 13 is deleted;

Article 15 is deleted;

Article 16 is replaced by the following:

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/73 of 17 January 2025 amending Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs