COPYRIGHT 
The Copyright (EC Measures Re lating to Pirated Goods and 
Abolition of Restrictions on th e Import of Goods) Regulations 
1995 
Made 
7th June 1995 
Laid before Parliament 
8th June 1995 
Coming into force 
1st July 1995 
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated( 1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European 
Communities Act 1972( 2) in relation to the abolition of  restrictions on the import or  export of goods and in relation 
to measures relating to counterfeit and pirated goods, in exerc ise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) and (4) 
of the said Act of 1972, and of a ll other enabling powers, here by makes the following Regulations: 
Citation and commencement 
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Copyright (EC Measures Relating to Pirated Goods and 
Abolition of Restrictions on the Import of Goods) Regulations 1 995 and shall come into force on 1st July 
1995. 
Amendment of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 
2.—(1) Section 111 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (3) shall be amended as follows. 
(2) After subsection (3) insert— 
“(3A) The Commissioners may treat as prohibited goods only infr inging copies of works 
which arrive in the United Kingdom— 
(a)from outside the European Economic Area, or 
(b)from within that Area but not having been entered for free c irculation. 
(3B) This section does not apply to goods entered, or expected to be entered, for free 
circulation, export, re-export or for a suspensive procedure in  respect of which an application 
may be made under Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 3295/94 (4) laying down 
measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, export, re-export or entry for a suspensive 
procedure of counterfeit and pirated goods.”. 
(3) In subsection (4), for the words “is prohibited” substitute  “subject to subsections (3A) and (3B), is 
prohibited”. Ian Taylor 
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and Technology , 
Department of Trade and Industry 
7th June 1995 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
(This note is not part of the Regulations) 
These Regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communitie s Act 1972 give effect in the United 
Kingdom to the Community obligation to establish within the Com munity the internal market as an area 
without internal frontiers in accordance with Articles 8(a) and  30 of the EC Treaty taking into account Article 
9(1) of the European Economic Area Agreement. The effect of tho se articles is that goods arriving in the 
United Kingdom which originate in any of the EEA States or good s which have been released into free 
circulation in the European Community cannot be treated as proh ibited goods under section 111. 
The Regulations modify section 111 of the Copyright, Designs an d Patents Act 1988 which entitles a 
copyright owner to give notice to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of infringing printed copies of 
literary, dramatic or musical works or infringing copies of sou nd recordings or films which he wishes to be 
treated as prohibited. It restricts such requests to goods whic h arrive in the United Kingdom from outside the 
European Economic Area or from within that Area but which have not been entered for free circulation. 
Excluded from the application of section 111, are goods entered  for free circulation, export, re-export or for 
a suspensive procedure in respect of which an application may b e made under Article 3(1) of Council 
Regulation (EC) No. 3295/94  laying down measures to prohibit the release for free circulat ion, export, re-
export or entry for a suspensive procedure of counterfeit and p irated goods (O.J. No. L341, 30.12.94, p.8) 
which comes into force on 1st July 1995. 
A compliance cost assessment is available, copies of which have  been placed in the libraries of both Houses 
of Parliament. Copies of the assessment are also available from  the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate 
of the Patent Office, Room 3/13, Hazlitt House, 45 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AR. 
(1) 
S.I. 1992/2661  and S.I. 1995/751 . 
(2) 
1972 c. 68 ; by virtue of the amendment of s ection 1(2) of the European Co mmunities Act 1972 b y section 1 of the 
European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)  regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European 
Communities Act 1972 to implement obligations of the United Kin gdom created by or arising under the Agreement 
on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting the 
Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183). 
(3) 
1988 c. 48 . 
(4) 
O.J. No. L341, 30.12.94, p.8.