# Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs, Article 6: Individual character

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

1. A design shall be considered to have individual character if the overall impression it produces on the informed user differs from the overall impression produced on such a user by any design which has been made available to the public:
(a) in the case of a supplementary unregistered ... design, before the date on which the design for which protection is claimed has first been made available to the public;
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. In assessing individual character, the degree of freedom of the designer in developing the design shall be taken into consideration.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/6/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-6/article-6
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