Article 76

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1. The Office shall keep the files relating to Community design applications and to registered Community designs for at least five years from the end of the year in which:
(a) the application is rejected or withdrawn;
(b) the registration of the registered Community design expires definitively;
(c) the complete surrender of the registered Community design is registered pursuant to Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;
(d) the registered Community design is definitively removed from the Register;
(e) the registered Community design is deemed not to have had the effects specified in Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 pursuant to Article 50(4) thereof.


2. The President of the Office shall determine the form in which the files shall be kept.