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**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3716/98 by José GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL Counterfeiting and piracy** 
  
*Official Journal C 289 , 11/10/1999 P. 0077*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3716/98

by José García-Margallo y Marfil (PPE) to the Council

(11 December 1998)

Subject: Counterfeiting and piracy

On 22 October 1998 the Commission announced the publication of a Green Paper on combating counterfeiting and piracy in the single market, with which it launched wide-ranging consultations on the matter with interested parties in the Member States.

The Green Paper pursues four lines of thought: (a) support for monitoring activities by the private sector; (b) the legal protection of authenticating and security devices; (c) an assessment of the sanctions and other means capable of ensuring that intellectual property rights are enforced; and (d) the establishment of appropriate administrative cooperation between the Member States' competent authorities.

Will the Council specify what rules the EU has at its disposal to inspect goods for their authenticity at its external borders?

Reply

(29 March 1999)

On 25 January 1999 the Council adopted Council Regulation No 241/1999(1) amending Regulation (EC) 3295/94 of 22 December 1994(2) laying down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, export, re-export or entry for a suspensive procedure of counterfeit and pirated goods. That Regulation is the act on which controls on entering and leaving the customs territory of the European Community concerning counterfeit and pirated goods are based.

The purpose of Council Regulation No 241/1999, on which the Parliament delivered its Opinion on 17 June 1998(3), is to extend the scope of Regulation No 3295/94 to encompass patents and the Community trade mark.

(1) OJ L 27, 2.2.1999, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 341, 31.12.1994, p. 8.

(3) OJ C 210, 6.7.1998, p. 123.

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