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 Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of April 14, 1891, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, entered into force on October 23, 1983:
- in Article 10(2)(a)(v), "triennial" is replaced by "biennial"
- in Article 10(4)(a), "third" is replaced by "second."
The said amendments were unanimously adopted by the Assembly of the Union for the International Registration of Marks (Madrid 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 States members of the said Assembly of the Madrid Union at the time the said Assembly adopted those amendments. The said notifications of acceptance were received, in chronological order, from the following 16 States, the date of receipt being indicated after each State: Liechtenstein (November 16, 1979), Federal Republic of Germany (December 11, 1979), Spain (January 17, 1980), Monaco (January 23, 1980), France (January 31, 1980), Italy (February 26, 1980), Czechoslovakia (April 15, 1980), Romania (June 11, 1980), Switzerland (July 3, 1980), Luxembourg (October 3, 1980), Hungary (February 19, 1981), Soviet Union (October 30, 1981), Egypt (January 25, 1982), German Democratic Republic (August 6, 1982), Algeria (September 1, 1983), Viet Nam (September 23, 1983).
The said amendments bind all the States members of the said Assembly at the time those amendments entered into force, that is: Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Federal Republic of, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Switzerland, Viet Nam, Yugoslavia (22), and will bind all other States which became or become members of that Assembly subsequent to their date of entry into force (see Article 13(3) of the afore-mentioned Agreement). At the date of the present notification there are no such other States.
December 1, 1983