Article 68

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1. The Office shall make available free of charge forms for the purpose of:
(a) filing an application for a registered Community design;
(b) applying for the correction of an application or a registration;
(c) applying for the registration of a transfer and the transfer form and transfer document referred to in Article 23(4);
(d) applying for the registration of a licence;
(e) applying for renewal of registration of a registered Community design;
(f) applying for a declaration of invalidity of a registered Community design;
(g) applying for restitutio in integrum;
(h) taking an appeal;
(i) authorising a representative, in the form of an individual authorisation and in the form of a general authorisation.


2. The Office may make other forms available free of charge.


3. The Office shall make available the forms referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 in all the official languages of the Community.


4. The Office shall place the forms at the disposal of the Benelux Design Office and of the Member States' central industrial property offices free of charge.


5. The Office may also make available the forms in machine-readable form.


6. Parties to proceedings before the Office should use the forms provided by the Office, or copies of those forms, or forms with the same content and format as those forms, such as forms generated by means of electronic data processing.


7. Forms shall be completed in such a manner as to permit an automated input of the content into a computer, such as by character recognition or scanning.