The date of filing of an application for a registered
Community design shall be the date on which documents
containing the information specified in Article 36(1) are filed
with the Office by the applicant, or, if the application has been
filed with the central industrial property office of a Member
State or with the Benelux Design Office, with that office.
By derogation from paragraph 1, the date of filing of an
application filed with the central industrial property office of a
Member State or with the Benelux Design Office and reaching
the Office more than two months after the date on which
documents containing the information specified in Article
36(1) have been filed shall be the date of receipt of such
documents by the Office.