# Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs, Article 1: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purpose of this Directive:
(a) ‘design’ means the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation;
(b) ‘product’ means any industrial or handicraft item, including inter alia parts intended to be assembled into a complex product, packaging, get-up, graphic symbols and typographic typefaces, but excluding computer programs;
(c) ‘complex product’ means a product which is composed of multiple components which can be replaced permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/71/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-71/article-1
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