A Community design is a design or model valid throughout the European Union (EU), which currently comprises the following 27 states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
A Community design is not to be considered a set of independent national designs since it constitutes a unique title granted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, formerly Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market or OHIM, based in Alicante, Spain) and is valid in all EU states. This means that the vicissitudes of design have simultaneous repercussions for all EU countries.