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 Kingdom of the Netherlands, for the Kingdom in Europe and the Netherlands Antilles, on October 2, 2009, of its instrument of accession to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, adopted at Singapore on March 27, 2006.
The Singapore Treaty entered into force with respect to the Netherlands Antilles, on January 2, 2010. The Kingdom of the Netherlands being a Member State of the Benelux Organization for Intellectual Property, the said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to the Kingdom in Europe at a later date, in accordance with Articles 26 and 28 of the said Treaty.
February 5, 2010