"The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization ... presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, on November 13, 2009, of its instrument of ratification of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, adopted at Geneva on July 2, 1999 ...".

The Geneva Act will enter into force in respect of the Federal Republic of Germany, on February 13, 2010".

"The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization ... presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to refer to the deposit by the Government of the Swiss Confederation, on October 24, 1939 and November 7, 1962, of its instruments of ratification of the London Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs of November 6, 1925, as revised at London on June 2, 1934 (the "London Act"), and of the Additional Act of Monaco of November 18, 1961, to the said Agreement (Additional Act of Monaco), respectively.

The Director General of WIPO has the honor to notify that the Government of the Swiss Confederation deposited, on November 19, 2009, an instrument of denunciation of the London Act and of the Additional Act of Monaco. Pursuant to Article 22(4) of the London Act, the said denunciation shall take effect, in respect of the Swiss Confederation, on November 19, 2010".