{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-608/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-608/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/608",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-608",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Entitlement to submit an application",
  "text": "The following persons and entities shall, to the extent they are entitled to initiate proceedings, in order to determine whether an intellectual property right has been infringed, in the United Kingdom, be entitled to submit an application:\n(1)right-holders;\n(2)intellectual property rights management collective bodies;\n(3)persons or entities authorised to use intellectual property rights, which have been authorised formally by the right-holder to initiate proceedings in order to determine whether the intellectual property right has been infringed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 5(a)(i) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 inserted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 5(a)(ii) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 3(1)-(3) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 5(b) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/608/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:33.650735+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."
}