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 the deposit by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on June 11, 2013, of its instrument of accession to the Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks, done at Vienna on June 12, 1973, as amended on October 1, 1985.
The said instrument of accession contains a declaration that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland intends to avail itself of the reservation provided for in Article 4(5) of the Agreement.
The said Agreement will enter into force, with respect to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on September 11, 2013.
June 11, 2013