Similarly, in case of an accident, parallel traders may not have received adequate training to properly handle and address the accident. The same applies to the Report presented by DG Internal Market to the Council, on 7 December 1999. As a consequence, any decision to be adopted and having an effect on chemicals would be adopted without proper economic and scientific consideration. This if to be done may equally create unnecessary burden to European companies. Indeed, in addition to all enforcement problems it may create in the EU, it will be even worse to such license provisions in foreign countries and may also increase problems associated with the fight against counterfeiting.
International exhaustion undermines the whole IPRs systems.
This runs counter the EU's stated aims regarding the enhancement of IPRs systems, competitiveness and innovation. The chemical industry appreciates that at the Internal Market Council held on 25 May 2000, Commissioner Bolkestein informed the Member States' Ministers that the Commission had, at this stage, decided not to propose a change to the current Community-wide exhaustion regime. The reasoning behind this declaration is given on DG Internal Market web site . The producer may also cease to sell in this country. Trade flows in research based products such as chemicals show that developing countries' markets are not that important.