ECTA, INTA and MARQUES have once again joined forces to review the European Commission’s proposals for a revised EU Designs Regulation and Directive and submitted yesterday the Joint Comments to the respective Public Consultation (please see here).

Our input built largely on the recommendations provided to the European Commission over the past years, in particular, our Joint Paper on Legal Review of EU Designs System, submitted in July 2018 (please see here), and Joint Comments on the European Commission’s Inception Impact Assessment submitted in January 2021 (please see here).

In this context and based on the ECTA Design Committee’s reflections and discussions in the last years, ECTA also submitted a number of individual position papers and other contributions on designs, such as a Position Paper on 3D Printing and its Implications on Design Law (please see here) in April 2021 and the Position Paper on the interpretation of technical functionality under art. 8(1) CDR (please see here).

We welcome the efforts of the European Commission in attempting to achieve greater harmonisation in the area of industrial designs and taking on board some of the proposals and recommendations presented in our earlier papers and joint submissions.

We would also like to thank the ECTA Design Committee as well as the Design teams of INTA and MARQUES for their collaboration and relevant contributions towards a more modern and efficient EU design system.

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