Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 8.4.2004 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | CE 88/158 |

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(2004/C 88 E/0167)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3824/03

by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission

(12 December 2003)

Subject:   Labels of origin for imports

Counterfeiting and commercial piracy are causing immense harm to EU manufacturers. Dumping continues to be used by some States as a means of gaining access to EU markets for their products. In Italy, footwear manufacturers are among those hardest-hit by fraudulent imports. With a view to ensuring fair trade, more controls should be introduced, together with rules enabling products to be clearly identified. Furthermore, the Union should decide to introduce a label for EU products, such as ‘EU’, followed by the name of the Member State of origin.

Can the Commission state:

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| — | why it does not insist upon a compulsory label of origin for products from non-EU countries? |

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| — | why it does not consider equal customs duties to be a necessary part of reciprocity in world trade? |

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| — | why it does not make a label of origin compulsory for EU products as well, in order to ensure that consumers are properly informed? |

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| — | how it intends to curb the flood of fraudulent imports and to remedy this situation, which is penalising large sections of various Member States' manufacturing industries? |

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