{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2002/6",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation:\n(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;\n(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;\n(c)‘complex product’ means a product which is composed of multiple components which can be replaced permitting disassembly and re-assembly of the product;\n(d)‘qualifying country’ and ‘qualifying territory’ mean a country or territory designated by regulations made under Article 7.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3(d) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 4 (with reg. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 14, 19); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/6/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:39.790015+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}