Membership of ECTA is reserved to individuals

Various categories of members exist, according to the following criteria:

• Ordinary Members

- A person who is entitled to practice as a professional representative before the Trade Marks Registry of the country outside the EU in which he has his place of business or employment; and,

- in each case: unless he is so entitled by possession of a special professional qualification, has habitually so practised for at least five years; and be involved in the Trade Mark matters of the EU or Member States of the EU.

• Affiliate Members

Practitioner in or outside the EU otherwise than as a professional representative before OHIM.

• Student Members

• Retired Members

Persons that have been an Ordinary Member, an Associate member or an Affiliate member for a continuous period not less than five years and are no longer active in trade mark practice.

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