The EUIPO will gradually diminish paper consumption during proceedings as of 15 May 2021, to make communications more agile and reduce the impact on the environment.

For future outgoing electronic communications, the Office will include links to download attachments from the EUIPO website, instead of providing them in its notifications. For communications currently sent by post, users will have to create a User Area account to download attachments from the links.

When users need to submit documents already submitted in another proceeding, these should be sent in the form of a link rather than resent as attachments. In fact, the documents will already be available in the Office system via the User Area.

The EUIPO will adopt a transition period of 6 months during which users will receive both printed attachments and links to attachments on the website through the User Area.