Industrial property: legal protection of designs

The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr Manuel MEDINA ORTEGA (PSE, E), with amendments relating mainly to technical aspects of the proposal for a directive. These concerned, in particularly, the conditions under which a product that is a component part of a complex product may enjoy legal protection as a design or model, the rights and obligations relating to information, and an analysis by the Commission, after the entry into force of the legislation, of the consequences of these provisions on those sections of industry that are most affected. �