Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/857Show full title

Article 9 Speculative and abusive registrations

1. The Registry shall have policies and procedures in place to actively mitigate speculative and abusive domain names registrations in the .eu TLD in compliance with paragraphs (b), (c), (e) of Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2019/517. In doing so, it shall cooperate with the European Union Intellectual Property Office and other Union agencies.

2. The Registry shall take into consideration at least the intellectual property rights covered in Commission Statement 2005/295/EC(1), including copyright, trademarks, and geographical indications provided in Union or national law, and, in as far as they are protected under national law in the Member States where they are held: unregistered trademarks, trade names, business identifiers, company names, family names, and distinctive titles of protected literary and artistic works.

3. To mitigate speculative and abusive domain names registrations, the Registry shall have in place policies and procedures ensuring the accuracy of registration data, in particular data identifying registrants. The Registry shall ensure that the registrars manage the registrations in line with the principles of security and accuracy of the data and in accordance with Union law.

4. The Registry shall have in place policies and procedures for registration requests and for the verification of registration criteria and of registrants’ data, which shall ensure that any verification of the information takes place prior to the registration or subsequently, at the initiative of the Registry or as a result of a dispute related to the registration of the domain name in question.

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Statement by the Commission concerning Article 2 of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ L 94, 13.4.2005, p. 37).