The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to refer to the deposit by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on February 26, 1969, of its instrument of ratification of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and as amended on September 28, 1979 (Paris Convention) (see Paris Notification No. 7).
In this respect, the Director General has the honor to notify the deposit, on August 13, 2020, by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the following declaration:
- "in accordance with Article 24(1) of the Convention, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland declares that the United Kingdom's ratification of the Convention shall be extended to the territories of the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, for whose international relations the United Kingdom is responsible."
The said declaration shall enter into force, with respect to the territories of the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, on November 13, 2020.
August 13, 2020