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 Japan, on November 17, 1989, of its instrument of accession 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, and as amended on October 2, 1979.
Japan has not heretofore been a member of the Special Union for the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks ("Nice Union"), founded by the Nice Agreement.
The Nice Agreement as revised and amended, will enter into force, with respect to Japan, three months after the date of this notification, that is, on February 20, 1990. On that date, Japan will become a member of the Nice Union.
November 20, 1989