The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, on December 20, 1995, of its instrument of ratification of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, adopted at Madrid on June 27, 1989 ("Madrid Protocol (1989)").
The Madrid Protocol (1989) will enter into force, with respect to the Federal Republic of Germany, on March 20, 1996.
The date on which the said Protocol will become operational will be notified in due course.
December 20, 1995