European Union Legal Regulations

REGULATIONS ON COPYRIGHT

Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the legal protection of computer programs

Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission

Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases

Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society

Directive 2001/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2001 on the resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art

Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ L 157, 30.4.2004)

Directive 2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (codified version)

Directive 2006/116/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (codified version)

REGULATIONS ON PATENTS

Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions

REGULATIONS ON TRADEMARKS

Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark

First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks

Council Regulation (EC) No 422/2004 of 19 February 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark

REGULATIONS ON INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS

Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs

Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs

Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 of 21 October 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs

2006/954/EC: Council Decision of 18 December 2006 approving the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs, adopted in Geneva on 2 July 1999

REGULATIONS ON INDICATIONS OF GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN

Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs

REGULATIONS ON TOPOGRAPHIES OF SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTS

Council Directive 87/54/EEC of 16 December 1986 on the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products

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