 Regulation on Community designs

Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs is a European Union regulation 
which introduces a unified system of industrial design rights, called Community designs, throughout the 
European Union.The system which includes both unregistered and registered design rights, 
operates in addition to national systems of protection in each Member State, which are partially harmonised by the 
Directive on the legal protection of designs (98/71/EC).