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1. The rights conferred by a design right upon registration shall not be exercised in respect of: acts carried out privately and for non-commercial purposes; acts carried out for experimental purposes; acts of reproduction for the purposes of making citations or of teaching; acts carried out for the purpose of identifying or referring to a product as that of the design right holder; acts carried out for the purposes of comment, critique or parody; the equipment on ships and aircraft registered in another country when these temporarily enter the territory of the Member State concerned; the importation in the Member State concerned of spare parts and accessories for the purpose of repairing ships and aircraft referred to in point (f); the execution of repairs on ships and aircraft referred to in point (f).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-16 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.