Regulation (EU) 2015/2424 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Text with EEA relevance)

• Published date: 24 December 2015
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Union, L 341, 24 December 2015

02015R2424 — EN — 01.10.2017 — 001.001

---

This text is meant purely as a documentation tool and has no legal effect. The Union's institutions do not assume any liability for its contents. The authentic versions of the relevant acts, including their preambles, are those published in the Official Journal of the European Union and available in EUR-Lex. Those official texts are directly accessible through the links embedded in this document

►B REGULATION (EU) 2015/2424 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2015 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 341 24.12.2015, p. 21)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	REGULATION (EU) 2017/1001 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 June 2017	L 154	1	16.6.2017

Corrected by:

►C1	Corrigendum, OJ L 071, 16.3.2016, p. 322 (2015/2424)
►C2	Corrigendum, OJ L 110, 26.4.2016, p. 4 (2015/2424)
►C3	Corrigendum, OJ L 267, 30.9.2016, p. 1 (2015/2424)

---

▼B

REGULATION (EU) 2015/2424 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 16 December 2015

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)

(Text with EEA relevance)

▼M1 —————

▼B

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 is amended as follows:

(1) Rule 1(3) is deleted;

(2) Rule 2 is deleted;

(3) Rule 4 is deleted;

(4) Rule 5 is deleted;

(5) Rule 5a is deleted;

(6) Rule 9(3) is amended as follows:

(a) in point (a), the words ‘Rules 1, 2 and 3’ are replaced by the words ‘Rules 1 and 3 and Article 28 of the Regulation’;

(b) in point (b), the reference to ‘Rule 4(b)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 26(2) of the Regulation’;

▼C2

(6a) In paragraph 1 of Rule 10, the reference to ‘Rule 4(c)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 38(2) of the Regulation’;

▼B

(7) Rule 11(2) is deleted;

(8) Rule 12(k) is deleted;

▼C2

(8a) Rule 23 is deleted;

(8b) In paragraph 1 of Rule 24, the reference to ‘Rule 84(2)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 87(2) of the Regulation’;

▼B

(9) Title IV is deleted;

▼C2

(9a) In Rule 47, the reference to ‘Rule 84(2)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 87(2) of the Regulation’;

▼B

(10) In paragraph 2 of Rule 62, the words ‘in the Community’ are replaced by ‘in the European Economic Area’;

(11) In paragraph 1 of Rule 71, the words ‘within the Community’ are replaced by ‘within the European Economic Area’;

(12) Rule 76(2) is deleted;

(13) Rule 78 is amended as follows:

(a) in point (c) of paragraph 2, the words ‘in the Community’ are replaced by ‘in the European Economic Area’;

(b) in paragraphs (2)(b), (3) and (5), the words ‘Member State’ and ‘Member States’ are replaced by ‘Member State of the European Economic Area’ and ‘Member States of the European Economic Area’ respectively;

(14) Rule 84 is deleted;

(15) Rule 87 is deleted;

(16) In Title XI, Part K is deleted;

▼C2

(16a) In paragraph 1 of Rule 93, the phrase ‘, otherwise Rule 89 shall not apply’ is deleted;

(16b) In paragraph 3 of Rule 93, the words ‘and Rule 88’ are deleted;

▼B

(17) Rule 112(2) is deleted;

▼C2

(17a) In paragraph 6 of Rule 115, the reference to paragraph 2 of Rule 112 is deleted;

(17b) In paragraph 3, second subparagraph, of Rule 121, the reference to paragraph 2 of Rule 112 is deleted.

▼B

Article 3

Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex II.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 March 2016.

▼C3

The following points of Article 1 of this Regulation shall apply from 1 October 2017:

points (8); (18) with the exception of paragraph 5b of Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (19); (20); (21); (22); (23); (24); (26) in so far as it relates to paragraph 1, point (d), and paragraph 3 of Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (29); (30) in so far it relates to paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (31) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (32) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1a, 4 and 6 of Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (33); (34); (35) in so far as it relates to paragraph 3 of Article 37 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (37) in so far as it relates to paragraph 1, second sentence, and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (43) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 2, 3, 4a and 8 of Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (46) in so far as it relates to paragraph 5, third sentence of Article 48 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (47) in so far as it relates to paragraph 1, first subparagraph, and paragraphs 2 to 5 of Article 48a of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (48) in so far as it relates to paragraph 3 of Article 49 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (49) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (61); (62); (63); (64) in so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Article 67 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (67) with the exception of paragraph 3 of Article 74b of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (68); (71) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 3 and 5 of Article 78 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (72) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 to 4 of Article 79 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (73) with the exception of paragraph 2 of Article 79b of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009, and paragraph 5 of Article 79c of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (74) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Article 80 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (75) in so far as it relates to paragraph 2 of Article 82 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (76) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 82a of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (77), (78) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1, 6 and 7 of Article 85 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (80) in so far as it relates to point (m) of paragraph 2 and point (y) of paragraph 3 of Article 87 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (84) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Article 89 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (97) with the exception of paragraph 6 of Article 113 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (98); (102) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 5, 5a, 6, 8 and 9 of Article 119 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (103); (108) in so far as it relates to Article 128(4)(o) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (111) in so far as it relates to the third sentence in paragraph 2 of Article 132 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (113); (125); (126) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 and 3 to 8 of Article 147 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; (127) in so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Article 148a of...