 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  IP/N/1/ESP/T/3 
23 February 2004 
 
 (04-0740) 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property Rights Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PR OPERTY LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
NOTIFIED UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
 
SPAIN 
 
  By means of a communication dated 11 April 2002, Spain notified, under Article 63.2 of the Agreement, the text
1 of Trademark Law No. 17/2001 of 7 December.  It establishes a new legal 
regime to govern distinctive signs in Spain, incorporating the provisions of community and 
international law by which the Spanish State is bound, and contains substantive and procedural 
provisions that practice has shown to be advisable.  It will enter into force on 31 July 2002 except for 
the provisions of Title V, Article 85, third, fourth, eighth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth and 
fifteenth additional provisions, which entered into force on 9 December 2001. 
  The third additional provision of the Law ame nds Articles 125, by adding a new paragraph 3, 
and 155 of Patent Law No. 11/1986.  The thirteenth  additional provision amends Articles 3.1, 4 and 5 
of Law No. 17/1975 on the establishment of the Autonomous Industrial Property Register Agency.   As from its entry into force, the new Law repeals Trademark Law No. 32/1988 of 
10 November;  Title IX, Chapter II of the Industria l Property Charter, approved by Royal Decree-Law 
of 26 July 1929, in respect of trademarks, trad e names and labels;  Article 11.4, in respect of 
trademarks, trade names and labels, and letter (b ) of the second paragraph of Article 11.5 of Law 
No. 17/1975 of 2 May on the establishment of the Autonomous Industrial Property Register Agency;  Article 2 of Royal Decree-Law No. 8/1998 of 31 July on urgent measures concerning industrial 
property;  the sixth and seventh additional provisi ons and the second transitional provision of Law 
No. 14/1999 of 4 May on Public Fees and Prices for services rendered by the Council for Nuclear 
Safety. 
  The text of the Law is reproduced below. 
                                                     
 
1 In Spanish only. IP/N/1/ESP/T/3 
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