INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY : HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE EXPLORES WAYS TO FIGHT PIRACY.(Conference news)
Europe Environment, May, 2008
The European Commission hosted, on 13 May, a high-level conference on fighting counterfeiting and piracy. The event was aimed at bringing together MEPs and stakeholders including businesses, public administrations and consumers. International trade in counterfeit and pirated goods has been estimated at US$200 billion in 2005. EU customs officials, in 2007, intercepted more than 128 million counterfeited and pirated articles. German officials alone confiscated around 1.2 billion worth of counterfeit goods.
EU actions against counterfeiting and piracy centre around instruments such as the Enforcement Directive (2004/48/EC) that aims, via non-criminal sanctions and measures, to harmonise member state legislation for enforcing intellectual property rights....
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