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# 91998E3511

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3511/98 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Commission. Counterfeit and pirated goods** 
  
*Official Journal C 182 , 28/06/1999 P. 0090*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3511/98

by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Commission

(25 November 1998)

Subject: Counterfeit and pirated goods

With reference to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) 3295/94 laying down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, export, re-export or entry for a suspensive procedure of counterfeit and pirated goods (COM(98) 25 final - 98/0018 ACC)(1), direct contact between rightholders (undertakings) and customs services is essential in order to increase the motivation of customs officials.

The power to restrict applications for seizure of goods at the frontier to specific EU countries is incompatible with the fundamental concept of the Community trade mark. In view of the fact that this is a single trade mark with a single legal basis throughout the Community, the only sensible solution in the long term is to have a single application for seizure of goods at the frontier which is valid in all Member States. Can the Commission take the appropriate action to this effect?

(1) OJ C 108, 7.4.1998, p. 63.

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