The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments' to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to inform His Excellency that the following amendments to the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of June 15, 1957, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and at Geneva on May 13, 1977, entered into force on September 6, 1982:
- in Article 5(2)(a)(iv), "triennial" is replaced by "biennial" and
- in Article 5(4)(a), "third" is replaced by "second."
The said amendments were unanimously adopted by the Assembly of the Nice Union on October 2, 1979 (see document AB/X/32, paragraph 33). The said amendments were reproduced in document AB/X/5, Annex I, and were communicated to the States concerned by Note C.N. 563 of November 14, 1979, as modified by Note C.N. 576 of January 31, 1980.
The entry into force of the said amendments was brought about upon the receipt by the Director General of notifications of acceptance of those amendments by the required number of the States members of the Assembly of the Nice Union at the time the said Assembly adopted those amendments. The said notifications of acceptance were received, in chronological order, from the following 21 States, the date of receipt being indicated after each State: Liechtenstein (November 16, 1979), Germany (Federal Republic of) (December 11, 1979), Norway (December 14, 1979), Denmark (December 24, 1979), Ireland (January 4, 1980), Sweden (January 9, 1980), Spain (January 17, 1980), Monaco (January 23, 1980), France (January 31, 1980), Italy (February 26, 1980), Czechoslovakia (April 15, 1980), United States of America (June 2, 1980), Switzerland (July 3, 1980), Luxembourg (October 3, 1980), United Kingdom (November 4, 1980), Hungary (February 19, 1981), Finland (October 23, 1981), Soviet Union (October 30, 1981), Australia (November 13, 1981), Israel (November 15, 1981), German Democratic Republic (August 6, 1982).
The said amendments bind all the States members of the said Assembly at the time those amendments entered into force, that is, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, German Democratic Republic, Germany (Federal Republic of), Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Soviet Union, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Yugoslavia (29), and will bind all other States that became or become members of that Assembly subsequent to their date of entry into force (see Article 8(3) of the aforementioned Agreement). At the date of the present notification there are no such other States.
July 11, 1983