Note: For standard designation fees, a three-level structure applies, reflecting the level of examination carried out by the contracting party | The revised drafts were then transmitted to governments for advice |
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To ensure optimal handling of enquiries use Contact Hague | Following public hearings on the preliminary objections of Germany in June 2004, the Court delivered its Judgment on 10 February 2005 |
In 1991, a painting by the Dutch master Pieter van Laer was lent by a museum in Brno Czechoslovakia to a museum in Cologne Germany for inclusion in an exhibition | Find out more: Hague System benefits The Hague System is your fast track route to securing international protection of your designs in multiple jurisdictions |
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a member state of an intergovernmental organization which is a contracting party;• you have a domicile or habitual residence in a contracting party; or• | In 1939, a draft convention, elaborated under the auspices of the International Museums Office, was presented to governments by the Netherlands |
Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, acting in his personal capacity, then filed a lawsuit in the German courts to have the painting returned to him as his property, but that action was dismissed on the ground that, under Article 3, Chapter Six, of the Settlement Convention paragraphs 1 and 3 of which are still in force , no claim or action in connection with measures taken against German external assets in the aftermath of the Second World War was admissible in German courts.
The General Conference of UNESCO in 1951 decided to convene a committee of government experts to draft a convention | A claim brought by Prince Hans-Adam II before the European Court of Human Rights regarding the decisions of the German courts was also dismissed |
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On account of the outbreak of World War II no further steps could be taken | This committee met in 1952 and thereafter submitted its drafts to the General Conference |
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