Article 76
Keeping of files 1. The Office shall keep the files relating to Community design applications and to registered Community designs for at least five years from the end of the year in which: (a) the application is rejected or withdrawn; (b) the registration of the registered Community design expires definitively; (c) the complete surrender of the registered Community design is registered pursuant to Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; (d) the registered Community design is definitively removed from the Register; (e) the registered Community design is deemed not to have had the effects specified in Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 pursuant to Article 50(4) thereof. 2. The President of the Office shall determine the form in which the files shall be kept. CHAPTER XVII ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION