PURPOSE: to codify Council Regulation 40/94/EC on the Community trade mark.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark (codified version).
CONTENT: the purpose of this Regulation is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation 40/94/EC of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark. The Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. It fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 13/04/2009.