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Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 Article 3

Article 3

Classification and indication of products 1. Products shall be classified in accordance with Article 1 of the Locarno Agreement, as amended and in force at the date of filing of the design. 2. The classification of products shall serve exclusively administrative purposes. 3. The indication of products shall be worded in such a way as to indicate clearly the nature of the products and to enable each product to be classified in only one class of the Locarno classification, preferably using the terms appearing in the list of products set out therein. 4. The products shall be grouped according to the classes of the Locarno classification, each group being preceded by the number of the class to which that group of products belongs and presented in the order of the classes and subclasses under that classification.

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CitationArticle 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 (LawPlayer, data as of 2026-07-04)

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