Brussels, 07/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - At the end of last year, the EU Council of Ministers adopted the regulation establishing a Community system for the protection of designs. The text sets in place a simple and inexpensive procedure for registering designs with the European Union's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market in Alicante (Spain). Unregistered designs will also be protected. Companies will still be able to choose to register designs under national law, as national...