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DIRECTIVE 98/71/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs Statement by the Commission Statement by the Commission regarding Article 18 · European Union

The scope of the protection conferred by a design right shall include any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.