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Thursday, February 09, 2006

IPR Enforcement in Europe.

Throughout the EU, enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights seems to be very much en vogue in our days. See for example

Document 5921/06 from the General Secretariat of the European Council addressed to the Working Party on Customs Union (Legislation and Policy) concerning a Draft Council Resolution on a Customs Response to latest trends in Counterfeiting and Piracy. The paper welcomes

"[...] - the concrete actions to improve customs controls, in particular via the increased exchange of risk management techniques and information, and to strengthen international co-operation, notably with main exporting countries and relevant international organisations;

- the need to build and promote a strong customs-business partnership, based on commitment from both sides, in tackling the problem of counterfeit goods;

- the approach taken to tackling the growing problem of fake goods, in particular those which pose a health and safety risk, via a comprehensive EU Action Plan building on the Communication?s concrete actions; [...]"

and invites the EU Commission to

"[...] - present appropriate proposals to support the implementation of the approach set out in the Communication, paying special attention to enhancing the information exchange both between customs and between customs and operators involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy;

- to report on the implementation of the Communication and the actions set out therein as part of the annual report foreseen in Article 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/20032; [...]"

Moreover, there is a lot of confidential ado ongoing concerning criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (Proposal for a Council framework decision to strengthen the criminal law framework to combat Intellectual Property offences), eg.

here,

here and

here.

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One of your link has changed since yesterday:

http://register.consilium.eu.int/servlet/driver?md=400&ssf=DATE_DOCUMENT%20ASC&typ=&srm=50&page=ResOther&ff_CODE_TYPE_DOCUMENT=ST&lang=EN&ff_COTE_DOCUMENT=5979/06|5979/*/06&fc=REGAISEN

Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights Proposal for a Council framework decision to strengthen the criminal law framework to combat intellectual property offences – Request for written opinions by 20 February 2006, on which of the intellectual property rights listed in Statement 2005/295/EC by the European Commission concerning Article 2 of Directive 2004/48/EC should be removed from the scope of the Directive (Article 1) N/A
08-02-2006

# posted by zoobab : 15 February, 2006 10:44