No L 351/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 31. 12. 94 (Acts ‘whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION . of 19 December 1994 on the extension of the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products to persons from certain territories (94/828/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 87/54/EEC of 16 December 1986 on the legal protection of topogra- phies of semiconductor products(’) and in particular Article 3 (7) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the right to legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products in the Community applies to persons qualifying for protection under Article 3 (1) to (5) of Directive 87/54/EEC; Whereas this right can be extended by Council Decision to persons who do not benefit from protection under the said provisions ; Whereas the extension of the protection in qﬁestion should, as far as possible, be decided by the Community as a whole; Whereas the Community has, since 7 November 1987, extended such protection on the basis of a series of () OJ No L 24, 27. 1. 1987, p. 36. interim Council Decisions to persons from certain territo- ries the number of which was increased on 1 November 1993 (), Whereas these Decisions were based on the consideration that the territories which did not yet have specific legisla- tion would make such provision and would make it appli- cable as soon as possible to persons from the Member States of the Community benefiting from the right to protection under Directive 87/54/EEC; Whereas the last of these Decisions, Decision 93/16/EEC, applies until 31 December 1994 ; Whereas the Agreement on trade-related aspects of intel- lectual property rights, which forms part of the results of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations embodied in the Marrakesh Final Act of 15 April 1994, requires Members to grant protection to integrated-circuit topographies in compliance with its own provisions and with those of the Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits to which it refers ; () Council Decision 87/532/EEC of 26 October 1987 on the ex- tension of the legal protection of topographies of semiconduc- tor products in respect of persons from certain countries and territories (OJ No L 313, 4. 11. 1987, p. 22); Council Deci- sion 90/511/EEC of 9 October 1990 on the extension of the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products to persons from certain countries and territories (OJ No L 285, 17. 10 1990, p. 31}; Council Decision 93/16/EEC of 21 De- cember 1992 on the extension of the legal protection of topo- graphies of semiconductor products to persons from the Uni- ted States of America and certain territories (OJ No L 11, 19. 1. 1993, p. 20), amended by Decision 93/520/EEC of 27 Sep- tember 1993 (O] No L 246, 2. 10. 1993, p. 31).