New Year, New… EU Design Law?

On 28 November 2022, the European Commission published its proposals for a Regulation amending Community Design Regulation No 2/2006¹ as well as a proposal for an amendment of the Community Design Directive².

The revisions aim to ensure that design protection is fit for purpose in the digital age and more accessible and efficient for individual designers, SMEs and design-intensive industries in terms of lower costs and less complexity, increased speed, greater predictability and legal certainty.

Proposals for changes in the Community Design Regulation

With the planned amendment of the CDR, we highlight content that is to be revised or supplemented as follows:

• Terminology update: The outdated term "Registered Community Designs" or "RCDs" is replaced by the modern term "Registered EU Design" ("REUDs"), thereby also aligning the terminology with both the Lisbon Treaty and the EU Trademark Regulation.