1.  This Order may be cited as the Designs (Convention Countries) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 31st January 2005.

2.  The countries specified in Schedule 1 are declared to be convention countries for the purposes of all the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.

3.  The Orders set out in Schedule 2 are hereby revoked.

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1CONVENTION COUNTRIES

• Albania

• Algeria

• Andorra

• Angola

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Argentina

• Armenia

• Australia

• Austria

• Azerbaijan

• Bahamas

• Bahrain

• Bangladesh

• Barbados

• Belarus

• Belgium

• Belize

• Benin

• Bhutan

• Bolivia

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Botswana

• Brazil

• Brunei Darussalam

• Bulgaria

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cambodia

• Cameroon

• Canada

• Central African Republic

• Chad

• Chile

• China

• Columbia

• Congo

• Congo, Democratic Republic of the

• Costa Rica

• Cote d’Ivoire

• Croatia

• Cuba

• Cyprus

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• Djibouti

• Dominica

• Dominican Republic

• Ecuador

• Egypt

• El Salvador

• Equatorial Guinea

• Estonia

• Faeroe Islands

• Fiji

• Finland

• France (including Overseas Departments and Territories)

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Georgia

• Germany

• Ghana

• Greece

• Grenada

• Guatemala

• Guinea

• Guinea-Bissau

• Guyana

• Haiti

• Holy See

• Honduras

• Hong Kong

• Hungary

• Iceland

• India

• Indonesia

• Iran, Islamic Republic of

• Iraq

• Ireland

• Israel

• Italy

• Jamaica

• Japan

• Jordan

• Kazakhstan

• Kenya

• Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

• Korea, Republic of

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyzstan

• Lao People’s Democratic Republic

• Latvia

• Lebanon

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

• Liechtenstein

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Macao

• Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Mali

• Malta

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Mexico

• Moldova, Republic of

• Monaco

• Mongolia

• Morocco

• Mozambique

• Myanmar

• Namibia

• Nepal

• Netherlands

• Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

• New Zealand (including the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau)

• Nicaragua

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Norway

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Panama

• Papua New Guinea

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Philippines

• Poland

• Portugal

• Qatar

• Romania

• Russian Federation

• Rwanda

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Saint Lucia

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• San Marino

• Sao Tome and Principe

• Saudi Arabia

• Senegal

• Serbia and Montenegro

• Seychelles

• Sierra Leone

• Singapore

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Solomon Islands

• South Africa

• Spain

• Sri Lanka

• Sudan

• Suriname

• Swaziland

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Syrian Arab Republic

• Taiwan

• Tajikistan

• Tanzania, United Republic of

• Thailand

• Togo

• Tonga

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Tunisia

• Turkey

• Turkmenistan

• Uganda

• Ukraine

• United Arab Emirates

• United States of America (including Puerto Rico and all territories and possessions)

• Uruguay

• Uzbekistan

• Venezuela

• Viet Nam

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2REVOCATIONS

• Designs (Convention Countries) Order 1994(2)

• Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 1995(3)

• Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2000(4)

• Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2000(5)

• Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001(6)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, pursuant to section 13(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949, declares the countries specified in Schedule 1 to be convention countries for the purposes of all the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949. In this Order the term “country” includes colonies, protectorates and territories by reason of section 13(3) of that Act.

The majority of the countries specified in the Order have acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (“the Paris Convention”) (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd. 4431) or the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation (including the Agreement on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) (Cm. 2556-59, 2561-69, 2571-74).

With the exception of Andorra, Angola, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro and the Seychelles all of the specified countries have already been declared to be convention countries by the Designs (Convention Countries) Order 1994 (SI 1994/3219) (as amended by the other four instruments listed in Schedule 2). This Order revokes all those earlier Orders and provides a consolidated list of countries that are convention countries for the purposes of all the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.