Any local authority or public establishment for inter-communal cooperation may ask the National Institute of Industrial Property to be alerted in the event of the filing of an application to register a trademark containing its name, under conditions set by decree.
The regional councils, the territorial collectivity of Corsica and the general councils may ask the Institut national de la propriété industrielle to be alerted in the event of the filing of an application for the registration of a trademark containing the name of a country located in their geographical territory, under conditions laid down by decree.