"2570th Council meeting
- COMPETITIVENESS - (Internal market, Industry and Research)
Brussels, 11 March 2004
President : Ms Mary HARNEY
An Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment of Ireland
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COMMUNITY PATENT
The Council held extensive discussions on a limited number of questions still outstanding with regard to the proposal for a Council Regulation on the Community patent. In the absence of agreement on these issues, the Presidency concluded that it would reflect on how to proceed further.
ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Council took note of information from the Presidency that the European Parliament voted on 9 March 2004 amendments to the proposal for a Directive on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Council will adopt the Directive as amended by Parliament in the next few weeks.
The Council welcomed the step forward which this first-reading agreement represents in the fight against piracy and counterfeiting and underlined that the new Directive will constitute a key element of the EU legal framework in the area of intellectual property rights and in the internal market at large. [...]"
Document 6648/04 (Presse 62):
"2570th Council meeting