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Legal protection of designs (recast)

Reference
2022/0392(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 18 November 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Legal Affairs JURI
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
MEP #124738
Shadow rapporteurs
6 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
3 versions
Opinions from
IMCO, ECON

Where it stands

The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.

  1. Referred to committee (done) 12 December 2022
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 24 October 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 30 October 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 24 January 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 14 March 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 18 November 2024

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

People

Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.

Lead committee
Legal Affairs JURI
Rapporteur
MEP #124738 (ID) former member
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #4560 (EPP) former member, MEP #197717 (S&D) former member, Raffaele STANCANELLI (ECR), MEP #197585 (Renew) former member, MEP #197431 (Greens) former member, MEP #24505 (The Left) former member
Opinion: IMCO
Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Opinion: ECON
Economic and Monetary Affairs

Decisions in plenary, 0

Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.

No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.

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No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.

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Versions, 3

The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.

  1. Adopted by Parliament14 Mar 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0165/2024 TA-9-2024-0165

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  2. Tabled for plenary30 Oct 2023

    Report A9-0317/2023 A-9-2023-0317

    Compare with committee draft

  3. Committee draft16 Jun 2023

    Draft report (JURI) JURI-PR-749961

AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
  • Adopted text TA9-0165/2024: Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a proposed directive on the legal protection of designs, a recast of existing rules. The proposal is a straightforward codification of existing texts with only the substantive amendments identified in it.
  • Draft report (JURI): The Committee on Legal Affairs' draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed directive on the legal protection of designs (recast). It amends the Commission proposal through 15 amendments, mostly to recitals and articles.

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Timeline, 10

Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.

Outcome 2 steps · 23 Oct 2024–18 Nov 2024
  1. 18 November 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 23 October 2024

    Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

Plenary stage 1 step · 14 Mar 2024
  1. 14 March 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 14 Mar 2024 Adopted text TA9-0165/2024Report A9-0317/2023

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 9 Nov 2023–24 Jan 2024
  1. 24 January 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

    The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.

  2. 9 November 2023

    Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

Plenary stage 1 step · 30 Oct 2023
  1. 30 October 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    Report A9-0317/2023

Committee stage 4 steps · 12 Dec 2022–24 Oct 2023
  1. 24 October 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

    JURI (Legal Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  2. 7 September 2023

    Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    JURI-AL-752970

  3. 16 June 2023

    Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in JURI (Legal Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    Draft report (JURI)

  4. 12 December 2022

    Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) give an opinion.

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Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
26 September 2026

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European Parliament (2026). “Legal protection of designs (recast)”. Dossier. reference 2022/0392(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0392 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2022/0392(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022%2F0392(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
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  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Legal protection of designs (recast)}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0392}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0392},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2022/0392(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022\%2F0392(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}