Article 66h - Cancellation of entries in the Register and revocation of decisions

1. Where the Office has made an entry in the Register or taken a decision which contains an obvious error attributable to the Office, it shall ensure that the entry is cancelled or the decision is revoked. Where there is only one party to the proceedings and the entry or the act affects that party’s rights, cancellation or revocation shall be determined even if the error was not evident to the party. 

2. Cancellation or revocation as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be determined, of its own motion or at the request of one of the parties to the proceedings, by the department which made the entry or took the decision. The cancellation of the entry in the Register or the revocation of the decision shall be effected within one year of the date on which the entry was made or the decision was taken, after consultation with the parties to the proceedings and any proprietor of rights to the EU design in question that are entered in the Register. The Office shall keep records of any such cancellation or revocation. 

3. This Article shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties to submit an appeal under Articles 55 and 55a or to the possibility of correcting errors and manifest oversights under Article 66g. Where an appeal has been filed against a decision of the Office containing an error, the appeal proceedings shall become devoid of purpose upon revocation by the Office of its decision pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article. In the latter case, the appeal fee shall be reimbursed to the appellant.