Enforcement of awards of costs by OHIM

Statutory Instrument (SI) 1998 No 1259 (the European Communities (Enforcement of Community Judgements) (Amendment) Order 1998) was laid before Parliament on 1 June 1998 and comes into force on 22 June 1998. This SI amends SI 1972 No 1590 (the European Communities (Enforcement of Community Judgements) Order 1972) which provides for the registration and enforcement in the United Kingdom of certain decisions, judgments and orders of Community institutions which Member States are required to make enforceable in accordance with natural law.

The amendment provides that decisions made under Article 82 of Council Regulation 40/94 (the Community trade mark regulation) by the Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) shall be registrable and enforceable in the United Kingdom in addition to all those decisions, judgments and orders for which provision is already made under SI 1972 No 1590. Decisions made by OHIM under Article 82 only relate to the fixing of awards of costs.