Status of EU-Directive on Measures and Procedures to ensure the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights.
The General Secretariat of the Council has invited COREPER to suggest to the Council, as an A item of one of its forthcoming meetings, to approve the amendments proposed by the European Parliament at first reading and adopt the proposed Directive as amended, the text of which, following scrutiny by the Legal/Linguistic experts, appears in document PE-CONS 3636/04 PI 33 CODEC 354 OC 224, with Austria and Italy abstaining; and to enter into its Minutes the statement contained in the Addendum to this Note:
Statement by the Commission: "The Commission considers that effective action against counterfeit and piracy requires criminal sanctions for serious infringements which are intentional and committed for commercial purposes. It also considers, in line with Article 20 of its original proposal that where necessary to achieve a Community objective, such measures may be adopted under the powers conferred for the purposes of achieving the aims set out in Article 95 of the Treaty establishing the European Community. Consequently, the Commission will examine the possibility to propose in due course further measures providing for criminal sanctions in this field."
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
European Patent Attorney as well as European Trade Mark Attorney. In particular, he is Member of:
invited COREPER to suggest to the Council, as an A item of one of its forthcoming meetings, to approve the amendments proposed by the European Parliament at first reading and adopt the proposed Directive as amended, the text of which, following scrutiny by the Legal/Linguistic experts, appears in document 
