3 Amendments of Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA related to 2013/0088(COD)
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) As a consequence of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the terminology of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 should be updated. This implies the replacement of '‘Community trade mark'’ by '‘European Union trade mark'’. In line with the Common approach on decentralised Agencies, agreed in July 2012 by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the name 'Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) ' should be replaced by 'European Union Trade Marks and Designs Agency' (hereinafter 'the Agency').
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to allow for more flexibility while ensuring greater legal certainty with regard to the means of representation of trade marks, the requirement of graphic representability should be deleted from the definition of a European trade mark. A sign should be permitted to be represented in any appropriate form, and thus not necessarily by graphic means, as long as the representationwith the requirement that it be possible to represent the sign, when published and inscribed in the register, in a way that enables the competent authorities and the public to determine with precision and clarity the precise subject matter of protection.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) In order to ensure an effective and efficient method to resolve disputes, to ensure consistency with the language regime laid down in Regulation (EC) No 207/2009, the expeditious delivery of decisions on a simple subject matter, and the effective and efficient organisation of the Boards of Appeal, and to guarantee an appropriate and realistic level of fees to be charged by the Agency, while complying with the budgetary principles set out in Regulation (EC) No 207/2009, the power to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission in respect of specifying the details onrules for applying the languages regime to be used beforein the Agency, the cases where opposition and cancellation decisions should be taken by a single member, the details on the organisation of the Boards of Appeal, the amounts of the fees to be paid to the Agency and details related to their payment.