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Notification of expiry of registration At least six months before expiry of the registration, the Office shall inform the holder, and any person having a right entered in the Register, including a licence, in respect of the Community design, that the registration is approaching expiry. Failure to give notification shall not affect the expiry of the registration.
Renewal of registration 1. An application for renewal of registration shall contain: (a) where the application is filed by the holder, his/her name and address in accordance with Article 1(1)(b); (b) where the application is filed by a person expressly authorised to do so by the holder, the name and address of that person and evidence that he/she is authorised to file the application; (c) where the applicant has appointed a representative, the name and business address of the representative in accordance with Article 1(1)(e); (d) the registration number; (e) where applicable, an indication that renewal is requested for all the designs covered by a multiple registration or, if the renewal is not requested for all such designs, an indication of those designs for which renewal is requested. 2. The fees payable pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 for the renewal of a registration shall consist of: (a) a renewal fee, which, in cases where several designs are covered by a multiple registration, shall be proportionate to the number of designs covered by the renewal; (b) where applicable, the additional fee for late payment of the renewal fee or late submission of the request for renewal, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, as specified in Regulation (EC) No 2246/2002. 3. Where the application for renewal is filed within the time limits provided for in Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, but the other conditions for renewal provided for in Article 13 thereof and in this Regulation are not satisfied, the Office shall inform the applicant of the deficiencies. If the application is filed by a person whom the holder has expressly authorised to do so, the holder of the design shall receive a copy of the notification. 4. Where an application for renewal is not submitted or is submitted after expiry of the time limit provided for in the second sentence of Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, or if the fees are not paid or are paid only after expiry of the relevant time limit, or if the deficiencies are not remedied within the time limit specified by the Office, the Office shall determine that the registration has expired and shall notify accordingly the holder and, where appropriate, the applicant for renewal and the person recorded in the Register as having rights in the design. In the case of a multiple registration, where the fees paid are insufficient to cover all the designs for which renewal is requested, such a determination shall be made only after the Office has established which designs the amount paid is intended to cover. In the absence of other criteria for determining which designs are intended to be covered, the Office shall take the designs in the numerical order in which they are represented in accordance with Article 2(4). The Office shall determine that the registration has expired with regard to all designs for which the renewal fees have not been paid or have not been paid in full. 5. Where the determination made pursuant to paragraph 4 has become final, the Office shall cancel the design from the Register with effect from the day following the day on which the existing registration expired. 6. Where the renewal fees provided for in paragraph 2 have been paid but the registration is not renewed, those fees shall be refunded. CHAPTER IV TRANSFER, LICENCES AND OTHER RIGHTS, CHANGES
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