International treaties

Key international agreements affecting European Union trade mark and Community design registration.

List of international agreements affecting European Eunion trade mark and design registration
Name	Date
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property	20/03/1883
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks, revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and at Geneva on May 13, 1977, and amended on September 28, 1979	15/06/1957
Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs. Signed at Locarno as amended on September 28, 1979	08/10/1968
Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks. Amended on October 1, 1985	12/06/1973
Protocol adopted at Madrid relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the international registration of marks	27/06/1989
Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of IP rights	15/04/1994
Trademark Law Treaty	27/10/1994
Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs Adopted by the Diplomatic Conference	02/07/1999
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks of Singapore	27/03/2006

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