Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 24.11.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 399/228 |

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P8\_TA(2015)0440

Laws of Member States relating to trade marks \*\*\*II

European Parliament legislative resolution of 15 December 2015 on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (recast) (10374/1/2015 — C8-0352/2015 — 2013/0089(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

(2017/C 399/43)

The European Parliament,

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| — | having regard to the Council position at first reading (10374/1/2015 — C8-0352/2015), |

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| — | having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 11 July 2013[(1)](#ntr1-C_2017399EN.01022801-E0001), |

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| — | having regard to its position at first reading[(2)](#ntr2-C_2017399EN.01022801-E0002) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2013)0162), |

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| — | having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, |

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| — | having regard to Rule 76 of its Rules of Procedure, |

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| — | having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A8-0355/2015), |

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|  | 1. | Approves the Council position at first reading; |

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|  | 2. | Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position; |

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|  | 3. | Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; |

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|  | 4. | Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union; |

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|  | 5. | Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments. |

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