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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-954/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/954",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 18 December 2006 approving the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs, adopted in Geneva on 2 July 1999 (2006/954/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-954",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "1. The Commission is hereby authorised to represent the European Community at the meetings of the Hague Union Assembly held under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.\n2. On all matters lying within the competence of the Community with regard to Community design, the Commission shall negotiate in the Hague Union Assembly on behalf of the Community and in accordance with the following arrangements:\n(a) the position which the Community may adopt within the Assembly shall be prepared by the relevant Council working party or, if this is not possible, at on-the-spot meetings convened in the course of the work within the framework of the World Intellectual Property Organisation;\n(b) as regards decisions involving amendments to Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, or to any other act of the Council requiring unanimity, the Community position shall be adopted by the Council acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission;\n(c) as regards other decisions affecting Community design law, the Community position shall be adopted by the Council acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/954/article/3",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}