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Explanatory note

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These Regulations amend the Schedule to the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989 to give effect to a communication from the European Commission pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Council Decision 88/311/EEC (O.J. No. L140, 7.6.1988, page 13). This communication determines that Austria is a country which satisfies the conditions in paragraph 2 of that Article that protection of topographies of semiconductor products under Austrian law has been extended to all classes of persons in the Member States of the European Economic Community.