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Any Member State may provide that a trade mark shall not be registered or, if registered, shall be liable to be declared invalid where and to the extent that: the use of that trade mark may be prohibited pursuant to provisions of law other than trade mark law of the Member State concerned or of the Community; the trade mark covers a sign of high symbolic value, in particular a religious symbol; the trade mark includes badges, emblems and escutcheons other than those covered by Article 6 ter of the Paris Convention and which are of public interest, unless the consent of the competent authority to their registration has been given in conformity with the legislation of the Member State; the application for registration of the trade mark was made in bad faith by the applicant.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.