Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2035 of 7 December 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 as regards the application for action form provided for in Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, in order to introduce the possibility to request the taking of action in Northern Ireland

(9) The notes on completion of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013, which are set out in Annex III to that Regulation should be amended to clarify that action in Northern Ireland can only be asked for intellectual property rights which are protected in Northern Ireland by virtue of the IE/NI Protocol.

(10) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(11) This Regulation should start applying on the day following that on which the transition period provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement is to end,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 is amended as follows:

(1) Annex I is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation;

(2) Annex III is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2021.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 December 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen

Annex

ANNEX I

Annex

ANNEX I

Annex

ANNEX II

In Part I of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013, in the note on the completion of box 6 (Member State or, in the case of a Union application, Member States in which customs action is requested), the following paragraph is added:

In case Northern Ireland (XI) is indicated, the application shall be a Union application and can only be granted for protection of any of the following intellectual property rights which are protected in Northern Ireland by virtue of the IE/NI Protocol:

(a) geographical indications or designations of origin protected for agricultural products and foodstuff as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1).

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(b) geographical indications of spirit drinks as provided for in Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the definition, description, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks, the use of the names of spirit drinks in the presentation and labelling of other foodstuffs, the protection of geographical indications for spirit drinks, the use of ethyl alcohol and distillates of agricultural origin in alcoholic beverages, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 (OJ L 130, 17.5.2019, p. 1).

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(c) geographical designations for aromatised products as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of aromatised wine products, and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91 (OJ L 84, 20.3.2014, p. 14).

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(d) designations of origin or geographical indications for wine as provided for in Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter I of Title II of Part II of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products, and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671).

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