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Angel Dzhambazki’s amendments to Pavel Svoboda draft report on EU Action Plan to enforce IP rights

Intellectual property rights are one of the driving forces of innovation and creativity and a key contributor to competitiveness and employment; the enforcement of intellectual property rights plays a significant role in ensuring consumers’ health and safety; counterfeiting is generally linked with a black economy and organised crime, through financial contributions.

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Max Andersson’s amendments to Pavel Svoboda draft report on EU Action Plan to enforce IP rights

Intellectual property rights are one of the driving forces of innovation and creativity and a key contributor to competitiveness and employment; product authenticity must not be conflated with product safety and product quality issues, the enforcement of intellectual property rights could also play a role in ensuring consumers’ health and safety; counterfeiting is generally linked with a black economy.

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Jean-Marie Cavada’s amendments to Pavel Svoboda’s draft report on EU Action Plan to enforce IP Rights

The EU faces a high number of intellectual property rights infringements, and the volume and financial value of these infringements are alarming, as reported by the Commission in its report on the application of the Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (COM(2010)0779); these figures also illustrate the added value which IPR represent for the European economy in global competition. Law enforcement is essential, and whereas Member States must adopt measures to enforce IPR effectively.

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2015 Report on EU customs enforcement of intellectual property rights

The annual publication of the result of customs actions at the EU external borders provides an opportunity to measure the scale of customs actions to enforce IPR. The enforcement of IPR by customs is a priority for the Commission and the Member States. For many years customs administrations in the Union have been known for their high standard of enforcement of IPR. In 2014, customs authorities made over 95.000 detentions, consisting of a total of 35,5 million articles. The domestic retail value of the detained articles represented over 600 million euros.

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Ministers from different EU countries have written the letter to Andrus Ansip concerning online platforms

The development of new digital technologies, behavioural patterns and business models is challenging the status quo and raising questions about how platforms function within the Digital Single Market. The European Commission is rightly emphasising the importance of this issue and collecting evidence as the basis for a comprehensive analysis of the role of online platforms within the Digital Single Market Strategy.

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Proposal for a regulation of the cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market – territoriality of rights in content

In order to ensure that providers of online content services which are provided against payment of money comply with the obligation to provide cross-border portability of their services without acquiring the relevant rights in another Member State, it is necessary to stipulate that those providers which lawfully provide portable online content services against payment of money in the Member State of residence of subscribers are always entitled to provide such services to those subscribers when they are temporarily present in another Member State.

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Proposal for a regulation of the cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market – subject of appliance

Proposed regulation (official document) should apply only to online content services which subscribers can effectively access and use in the Member State in which they habitually reside without being limited to a specific location, as it is not appropriate to require service providers that do not offer portable services in their home country to do so across borders.

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Proposal for a regulation of the cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market – guarantee of quality and scope of service

In order to ensure the cross-border portability of online content services it is necessary to require providers of online content services which are provided against payment of money to enable their subscribers to use the service in the Member State of their temporary presence by providing them access to the same content on the same range and number of devices, for the same number of users and with the same range of functionalities as those offered in their Member State of residence.

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Motion for and European Parliament resolution on ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty

Having regard to the petitions from EU citizens with print disabilities, and particularly Petition 924/2011 by Dan Pescod (British), on behalf of the European Blind Union (EBU)/Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), on access by blind people to books and other printed products and whereas the World Health Organisation estimated in 2010 that across Europe there are 2 550 000 blind people and 23 800 000 partially sighted people, giving a total of 26 350 000 visually impaired individuals and whereas only 5% of all published books in the developed countries and less than 1% in the developing countries are ever produced in accessible formats.

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The objective of proposed regulation of cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market

The objective of Regulation (official document) is to adapt the harmonised legal framework on copyright and related rights and to provide a common approach to the provision of online content services to subscribers temporarily present in Member States other than their Member State of residence, in order to ensure that the present barriers to cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market no longer exist.

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