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Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 Article 72

Article 72

Parts of the file excluded from inspection The parts of the file which shall be excluded from inspection pursuant to Article 74(4) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 shall be: (a) documents relating to exclusion or objection pursuant to Article 132 of Regulation (EC) No 40/94, the provisions of that Article being considered for this purpose as applying mutatis mutandis to registered Community designs and to applications for these; (b) draft decisions and opinions, and all other internal documents used for the preparation of decisions and opinions; (c) parts of the file which the party concerned showed a special interest in keeping confidential before the application for inspection of the files was made, unless inspection of such part of the file is justified by overriding legitimate interests of the party seeking inspection.

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CitationArticle 72 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 (LawPlayer, data as of 2026-07-04)

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