CELEX: 32020D1116(01)
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 10 November 2020 appointing the President of the Boards of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office 2020/C 391/01

16.11.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  C 391/1
               
            
         COUNCIL DECISION
         of 10 November 2020
         appointing the President of the Boards of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office
         (2020/C 391/01)
         THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
         Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark (1), and in particular Article 166(1) thereof,
         Whereas:
         On 8 June 2020, the Council received from the Management Board of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) a list of candidates proposed for the post of President of the Boards of Appeal of the EUIPO,
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            
               1.   Mr João Nuno MAROCO AMARAL NEGRÃO, born in Lisbon (Portugal) on 2 November 1970, is hereby appointed President of the Boards of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for a term of five years.
            
            
               2.   The date on which the five-year term referred to in paragraph 1 commences shall be determined by the Management Board of the EUIPO.
            
         
         
            Article 2
            This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 10 November 2020.
            
               
                  For the Council
               
               
                  The President
               
               M. ROTH
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 154, 16.6.2017, p. 1.