Annexes to COM(2023)221 - Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products

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Annexes to Commission communication – Commission work programme 2022, COM(2021) 645 final, 2021, p. 9 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar%3A9fb5131e-30e9-11ec-bd8e-01aa75ed71a1.0001.02/DOC_2&format=PDF#page=9).

4Council conclusions on intellectual property policy of 10 November 2020 https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/46671/st-12750-2020-init.pdf.

5European Parliament, Committee on Legal Affairs, Report on an intellectual property action plan to support the EU’s recovery and resilience (2021/2007(INI)), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2021-0284_EN.html.

6Case C-58/08 ECLI:EU:C:2010:321.

7https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/29524

8https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/29464

9https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/29524

10https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/29524/attachments/4/translations/en/renditions/native

11To some extent at least, during the transitional period during which non-unitary European patents will still be able to be litigated before national courts.

12or of filing a ‘combined’ application including a request for the granting of a unitary certificate in addition to the designation of additional Member States.

13For a full list of cases, see Table 5.5. of the second MPI study.

14Further clarifications are, however, necessary in certain areas as indicated by two referrals in 2022, cases C-119/22 and C-149/22.

15Or any other national authority competent for the grant of SPCs.

16OJ C […], […], p. […].

17OJ C […], […], p. […].

18COM(2020)760 final.

19Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2012 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection (OJ L 361, 31.12.2012, p. 1).

20Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (OJ L 198, 8.8.1996, p. 30).

21Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark (OJ L 154, 16.6.2017, p. 1).

22Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Better Law-Making (OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1).

23Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).

24Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).

25Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (OJ L 309 24.11.2009, p. 1).

26Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, as revised on 17 December 1991 and on 29 November 2000.

27Commission Regulation (EU) No 283/2013 of 1 March 2013 setting out the data requirements for active substances, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ L 093 3.4.2013, p. 1).

28Council Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community (OJ 17, 6.10.1958, p. 385).

29Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products [COM(2023) 231].

30Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43).

31Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1).

32Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Commission and instituting special measures temporarily applicable to officials of the Commission (OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1.)’

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