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Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (Codified version) COM(2006) 812 final — 2006/0264 (COD)
Date: 2007-03-14
Institutions: European Economic and Social Committee
Subjects: ESC opinion, approximation of laws, brand name, codification of EU law, patents licence, trade mark, trade-mark law

C 161/44

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

13.7.2007

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the
European Parliament and of the Council to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to
trade marks (Codified version)

COM(2006) 812 final — 2006/0264 (COD)

(2007/C 161/13)

On 17 January 2007 the Council decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee, under
Article 95 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the above-mentioned proposal.

The Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption, which was responsible for preparing the
Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 7 February 2007. The rapporteur was Mr Grasso.

At its 434th plenary session, held on 14 and 15 March 2007 (meeting of 14 March), the European
Economic and Social Committee adopted the following opinion by 157 votes with three abstentions.

1. Conclusions and recommendations

A codification of

1.1
that have frequently been
amended is essential if Community law is to be clear and trans-
parent.

rules

Codification must be undertaken in full compliance with

1.2
the normal Community legislative procedure.

The purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codifica-
1.3
tion of Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to

Brussels, 14 March 2007.

approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade
marks. The new Directive will supersede the various acts incor-
porated in it; this proposal fully preserves the content of the
acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them
together with only such formal amendments as are required by
the codification exercise itself.

1.4

The Committee endorses this codification.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Dimitris DIMITRIADIS