Article 2

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For the purposes of this Agreement:
“1925 Agreement” shall mean the Hague Agreement concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs of November 6, 1925;
“1934 Agreement” shall mean the Hague Agreement concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs of November 6, 1925, as revised at London on June 2, 1934;

“this Agreement” or “the present Agreement” shall mean the Hague Agreement concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs as established by the present Act;
“Regulations” shall mean the Regulations for carrying out this Agreement;
“International Bureau” shall mean the International Bureau of Intellectual Property;
“international deposit” shall mean a deposit made at the International Bureau;
“national deposit” shall mean a deposit made at the national Office of a contracting State;
“multiple deposit” shall mean a deposit including several designs;
“State of origin of an international deposit” shall mean the contracting State in which the applicant has a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment or, if the applicant has such establishments in several contracting States, the contracting State which he has indicated in his application; if the applicant has no such establishment in any contracting State, the contracting State in which he has his domicile; if he has no domicile in a contracting State, the contracting State of which he is a national;
“State having a novelty examination” shall mean a contracting State the domestic law of which provides for a system which involves a preliminary ex officio search and examination by its national Office as to the novelty of each deposited design.