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# 91996E0382

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 382/96 by Nikitas KAKLAMANIS to the Council. Working languages of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs)** 
  
*Official Journal C 356 , 25/11/1996 P. 0006*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0382/96 by Nikitas Kaklamanis (UPE) to the Council (26 February 1996)

Subject: Working languages of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs)

Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 ((OJ L 11, 14.1.1994, p. 1. )) of 20.12.1993 provides that 'an Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs)' shall be set up and that 'the languages of the Office shall be English, French, German, Italian and Spanish'.

Will the Council say on the basis of which criteria it decided that only the abovementioned languages would be used by the Office, rather than all the official languages of the European Union?

Reply (14 October 1996)

The Council asks the Honourable Member to refer to the decisions taken on 29 October 1993 by the Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting at the level of Heads of State or Government and to the Regulation on the Community trade mark ((OJ L 11, 14.1.1994, p.1. )), adopted by the Council on 20 December 1993, and in particular Article 115, 116 and 117 thereof.

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