Regulation 2 Implementation of DirectiveI1

United Kingdom

(1)

These Regulations make provision for the purpose of implementing—

(a)

Council Directive No. 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996^f1 on the legal protection of databases, F1...

(b)

certain obligations of the United Kingdom created by or arising under the EEA Agreement so far as relating to the implementation of that Directive F2, and

F3(c)

an Agreement^f2 in the form of an exchange of letters between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on behalf of the Isle of Man and the European Community extending to the Isle of Man the legal protection of databases as provided for in Chapter III of that Directive.

(2)

In this Regulation “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992, as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993^f3.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in reg. 2(1)(a) omitted (1.11.2003) by virtue of The Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2501), regs. 1(2), 3(a)
F2: Word in reg. 2(1)(b) substituted for full stop (1.11.2003) by The Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2501), regs. 1(2), 3(b)
F3: Reg. 2(1)(c) inserted (1.11.2003) by The Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2501), regs. 1(2), 3(c)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: O.J. No. L77, 27.3.96 p.20.
f2: Cm 2073.
f3: Cm 2183.