<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; page-break-before: always; page-break-after: avoid"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Gister vroegen een aantal piraten naar bronnen aangaande de Gallo report.</b></font></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; page-break-before: always; page-break-after: avoid"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Bij deze past ik het oorspronkelijke voorstel.</b></font></p><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; page-break-before: always; page-break-after: avoid">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5817632">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5817632</a></b></font></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif"><b>( Klik op Observatory Tracker om hem in je watchlist te plaatsen. )</b></font></div>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; page-break-before: always; page-break-after: avoid"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b>22/09/2010 Gaat men stemmen..... Moge het almachtig noedel monster ons beschermen :(</b></span></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Alternative Resolution </b></font>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; page-break-after: avoid">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION</b></font></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><b>on
enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market</b></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><a name="DocEPLastVariable"></a>
<b>(2009/2178(INI))</b></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><i>The
European Parliament,</i></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to the communication from the Commission to the
Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social
Committee of 11 September 2009 on enhancing the enforcement of
intellectual property rights in the internal market (COM(2009)0467),</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to the resolution of the Competitiveness Council of
25 September 2008 on a comprehensive European anti-counterfeiting and
piracy plan,</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
–<span lang="en-GB"> having regard to Directive 2000/31/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on
certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular
electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic
commerce)</span><sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"><sup>1</sup></a></sup><span lang="en-GB">,
</span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
–<span lang="en-GB"> having regard to Directive 2001/29/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on
the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights
in the information society</span><sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote2anc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"><sup>2</sup></a></sup><span lang="en-GB">,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
–<span lang="en-GB"> having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No
1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning customs action against goods
suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the
measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such
rights</span><sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote3anc" href="#sdfootnote3sym"><sup>3</sup></a></sup><span lang="en-GB">,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
–<span lang="en-GB"> having regard to Directive 2004/48/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the
enforcement of intellectual property rights</span><sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote4anc" href="#sdfootnote4sym"><sup>4</sup></a></sup><span lang="en-GB">,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
–<span lang="en-GB"> having regard to </span><span lang="en-GB">its
resolution of 25 April 2007 on the amended proposal for a directive
</span><span lang="en-GB">of</span><span lang="en-GB"> the European
Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring
the enforcement of intellectual property rights</span><sup><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote5anc" href="#sdfootnote5sym"><sup>5</sup></a></sup><span lang="en-GB">,</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to its resolution of 29 March 2009 on strengthening
security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet,</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to the European Convention for the Protection of
Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms and having regard to the
legally binding character of the Charter of Fundamental Rights,</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm">– having
regard to its resolution of 10 April 2008 on cultural industries in
Europe,</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to the communication from the Commission to the
Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social
Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 25 June 2008 on the
Small Business Act for Europe establishing the ‘Think Small First’
principle for an ambitious policy agenda for SMEs,</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
–<span lang="en-GB"> having regard to its resolution of 10 March
2010 on the transparency and state of play of the ACTA negotiations</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to Rule 48 of its Rules of Procedure,</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and
the opinions of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and
the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
(A7 0000/2010),</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<br><br>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
A. whereas commercial goods counterfeiting can constitute a genuine
threat not only to consumer health and safety but also to our
economies and societies,</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">B. whereas scientific and technical innovation,
patents and the cultural industries make a decisive contribution to
the competitiveness of the European economy, both through the number
and diversity of the job openings they provide and through the wealth
created; whereas the </span><span lang="en-GB">whole value-chain of
the cultural economy, from creation through to distribution, must be
supported,</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
C. whereas knowledge sharing and dissemination of innovation are
strong traditions in the European Union; whereas access by the
greatest possible number to technological progress and cultural
products continues to be the foundation of education and development
policy,</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">D. whereas the evolving information and digital
technology society creates new forms of production, distribution and
consumption that call for new commercial models able to provide
consumers with the access to the diversity of emerging goods and
services while guaranteeing appropriate remuneration for authors and
others stakeholders taking part in their creation,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">E</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas data
concerning the scale of IPR infringements are inconsistent,
incomplete, and dispersed, and whereas an objective, independent
impact assessment is needed before any additional legislative
proposal,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">F</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas innovation
and creativity have considerable added value for the European economy
and, taking account of the economic context, they should be preserved
and developed,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">G</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas the
phenomenon of IPRs infrigements in a purely digital environment, even
if they represent an important challenge for the creative content
industries, should be addressed separately from the issue of the
counterfeiting of physical goods,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">H</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas efforts to
tackle on-line non-commercial file sharing have created a strong and
prejudicial antagonism between the creative industries and their
public, and it is therefore necessary to explore new ways of creating
a synergy between the rights of the public and the revenues of
authors and creators,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">I</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas ongoing
infringements of IPRs may lead to a collapse of the innovation sector
in the EU,</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">J</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas the worldwide
phenomenon of on-line IPR infringements has reached worrying
proportions, particularly for the creative content industries, and
whereas it has not been established yet whether the existing legal
framework is capable of effectively protecting rights holders on the
Internet while guaranteeing a balance between all the interests at
stake, including those of consumers and citizens,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">K</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas the creative
sector should continue developing models enabling access to creative
content on-line which offer improved and cost-effective choices to
consumers, including access to unlimited subscription services;
whereas the development of these legal services is inhibited by the
territoriality of copyright licenses,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">L</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas, in order to
maintain and increase the attractiveness of what they can offer their
public, producers of audiovisual media must be in a position to use
all the new and existing means of distribution; whereas the current
system of granting licences must be adapted to the new technologies,
and gain in flexibility,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">M</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas, apart from a
legislation on penalties under criminal law, a Community legal
framework already exists on counterfeit physical goods, but whereas
lacunae persist with regard to the trade of counterfeit goods over
the Internet,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">N</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas it is
necessary to assess the measures provided for by Directive 2004/48/EC
on the enforcement of intellectual property rights on the internal
market, from the point of view of the protection of rights and</span><span lang="en-GB">
from the point of view of its effects on consumers’ rights</span><span lang="en-GB">,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">O. </span><span lang="en-GB">whereas the telecoms
regulatory framework has recently been amended, rejecting proposals
for so-called graduated response schemes at EU level, and instead
includes provisions for standardised public interest notices which
can address, among other things, copyright and infringement thereof
without jeopardising data protection and privacy rights and stresses
the need to respect fundamental rights in matters relating to
Internet access,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">P. whereas the question of the unified patent
system at EU level has still to be resolved,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">Q</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas there are
proven connections between various forms of organised crime and
commercial goods counterfeiting contrary to organised crime and
non-commercial file sharing,</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">R</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas the
co-decision role of the European Parliament in commercial matters and
its access to negotiation documents is guaranteed by the Lisbon
Treaty,</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">S</span><span lang="en-GB">. whereas current
Community law makes difficult the development of multi-territory
licensing systems in many areas,</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<br><br>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">1</span><span lang="en-GB"> Welcomes the progress
made in the EU in harmonising the fight against counterfeiting;
encourages the Commission to step up its efforts in areas that are
sensitive in terms of health and safety, including that of medicinal
products, foodstuffs, cosmetics, spare parts for vehicles and
technical and electrical equipment;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">2</span><span lang="en-GB">. Draws attention to
the serious impact of counterfeiting on the internal market and
therefore calls on the Commission to review, where appropriate, the
effectiveness of existing legislation; particular attention should be
given to the fight against the increase in counterfeit goods from
third countries and against counterfeit goods that put consumer
health at risk;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">3</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on Member
States and the Commission to put into place an efficient mechanism
for market surveillance, in particular an early warning system for
counterfeited goods, which would make it possible to have these goods
rapidly withdrawn from the whole European market;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">4</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to develop international measures for cooperation between
consumer protection supervisory authorities and third countries (in
accordance with Article 18 of the Regulation on consumer protection
cooperation) to make it easier to impose penalties on international
counterfeit goods distributors</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">5</span><span lang="en-GB"> Considers that, with
regard to the need to deal effectively with the large quantities of
counterfeit goods entering the internal market, it should as a matter
of urgency be possible, on the basis of the EU Customs Regulation,
for such goods to be seized and taken off the market at any point on
the EU's external borders, regardless of where they were imported;
stresses that a single EU patent and a Community trade mark ensure in
this respect such seamless protection across the EU; considers it
vital, therefore, that the use of Community trade marks should not be
hampered by the introduction of a new requirement according to which
a Community trade mark would be conditional on effective use in
several Member States;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">6</span><span lang="en-GB">. Takes note of the
Commission’s view that the current civil enforcement framework in
the EU is effective and harmonised to the extent necessary for the
proper functioning of the internal market and reminds the Commission
that the report on the application of Directive 2004/48/EC is
essential to confirm those claims; </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">7</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to ensure that the measures aimed at strengthening the
application of intellectual property rights in the internal market do
not impinge on the legitimate right to interoperability, this being
essential to competition on the digital works distribution market,
inter alia for the authors and users of free softwares;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">8</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the European
Commission to promote interoperability and technological neutrality,
allowing content to be distributed regardless of technology or format
used, and allowing convertibility of content between formats;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">9</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to create an EU system for certification marks, which on
the one hand would give a high level of IPR protection for
certification marks established at European or at national level,
create common rules and a legal framework for certification,
guarantee, quality and safety marks, and provide additional effective
tools against counterfeited goods which abuse such certification
marks, and on the other hand would ensure that the use of such
certification marks would achieve the desired level of safety for
European consumers, </span>
</p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">10</span><span lang="en-GB">. Notes that the EU
Certification Mark system should provide additional protection going
beyond that afforded by the collective Community Trade Marks and
should be run by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">11</span><span lang="en-GB">. Takes the view that
the Commission should take into account the specific problems
encountered by SMEs when it comes to reinforcing the intellectual
property rights corresponding to the principle of ‘Think Small
First’ established by the Small Business Act for Europe, inter alia
by applying the principle of non-discrimination for SMEs;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">12</span><span lang="en-GB">. Take account of the
existence of particular formats making works accessible for those
with disabilities, in particular the visually impaired, and adopt the
necessary measures to promote the distribution thereof throughout the
internal market and to the rest of the world; calls on the Commission
to evaluate the possibility of introducing a mandatory Europe-wide
exception to increase access to works for people with disabilities,
and to report its findings to the Parliament;</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<br><br>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><b>European
Observatory on Intellectual Property (‘the Observatory’)</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">13</span><span lang="en-GB">. Welcomes the
establishment of the Observatory as a tool for the centralisation of
statistics and data which will serve as a basis for proposals; urges
the Commission to conduct a report on how best to use Europol and
existing structures for cooperation between customs authorities in
this field to combat criminal IPR infringements effectively;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">14</span><span lang="en-GB">. Recognises the
importance of comprehensive and reliable information and data on all
types of markets affected by IPR infringements, as well as reliable
data on the infringements themselves, for the development of
evidence-based and result-oriented policy making;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">15</span><span lang="en-GB">. Wishes the
Observatory to become a tool for collecting and exchanging data and
information on all forms of IPR infringements; its prime objective
should be to compile and producing scientific research regarding
counterfeiting and IPR regulation;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">16</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
European Observatory to analyse the problems relating to the storage
and disposal of large quantities of counterfeit goods and to simplify
the existing rules for reuse of the counterfeit goods with the
consent of the rights-holders for the needs of non-profit
organisations with social purposes;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">17</span><span lang="en-GB">. The Observatory
should include, where relevant, an evaluation of the impact relating
to IPR and to knowledge flows, in particular with respect to SMEs,
especially those situated in less-favoured regions, in all impact
assessments;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">18</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to clarify the tasks which are to be entrusted to the
Observatory and stresses that the success of the Observatory largely
depends on the involvement and cooperation of all stakeholders,
including the national authorities, rights holders, consumers’
organisations and the industries concerned, in order to increase
transparency and avoid duplication of effort;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">19</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to inform the European Parliament and the Council fully
and comprehensively about the results of the Observatory’s
activities</span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b> </b></i></span><span lang="en-GB">through
an annual report in which the Commission draws conclusions and
proposes necessary solutions to improve IPR law;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">20</span><span lang="en-GB">. Requests a closer
involvement of the European Parliament and the civil society in
working on the next steps against infringements of intellectual
property rights; in this respect criticises the lack of information
on the progress of the stakeholders' working groups established by
the Commission and the European Observatory; therefore calls for the
creation of a parliamentary platform in the stakeholders' working
groups;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">21</span><span lang="en-GB">. Notes that the law
enforcement and data protection authorities, EUROPOL and EUROJUST
representatives, academics, representatives of legal practitioners
and civil society should be more involved in the Commission's work on
combating infringements of intellectual property rights; therefore
calls for these representatives to be invited to the stakeholders'
working groups;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">22</span><span lang="en-GB">. Urges the Commission
to guarantee that the Observatory complies with EU rules in the field
of privacy and data protection;</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<br><br>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2">
<font size="3"><b>Innovating to adapt IPR to the Internet</b></font></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">2</span><span lang="en-GB">3. Calls on the
Commission to propose a comprehensive strategy on IPRs contributing
to the creation of an on-line single market and adapting the European
legislative framework on IPRs to current trends in society and
technical developments in order to guarantee effective protection of
IPRs while ensuring wide access to the users;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">2</span><span lang="en-GB">4 Emphasises the need
for a consistent, efficient and balanced system of protection of
intellectual property rights, which takes into account users' rights
and obligations and fundamental freedoms and supports legal clarity
for both rights-holders and consumers in the internal market;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">2</span><span lang="en-GB">5. Stresses that
measures taken to enforce IPRs online and impacting fundamental
rights and freedoms must respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights of
the European Union, in particular Article 7 and 8, the European
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms, in particular Article 6, 8, and 10; recalls in this
connection that Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of
the European Union provides for the protection of intellectual
property; Recalls as well the Directive 95/45 on the protection on
the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of
personal data and on the free movement of such data;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">26</span><span lang="en-GB">. Warns against
non-legislative measures regarding the application of IPR, as they
may lead to the circumvention of legal safeguards, including those
concerning data protection and privacy;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">2</span><span lang="en-GB">7. Views as regrettable
the fact that the Commission links the terms ‘piracy’ and
‘counterfeiting’ in its communication, thereby creating a legal
grey area with regard to the offence being referred to; </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">28</span><span lang="en-GB">. Wonders about the
accuracy of the word ‘piracy’ as used to designate the
non-commercial exchange of content on line, which leads to a de facto
criminalisation of millions of European citizens, </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">29</span><span lang="en-GB">. Urges the Commission
to distinguish, in the above - mentioned strategy, between
unauthorized commercial or for profit massive dissemination of files
which is an obvious infringement of intellectual property rights and
should be punished, and non-commercial online file sharing, which
should not be prosecuted;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">30</span><span lang="en-GB">. Recalls that the
“private copy” exception to IPRs exists in the cultural area;
calls on the Commission to consider how this provision can be adapted
to new technological progress and the Internet and linking it to new
business models for the creative sector;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">31</span><span lang="en-GB">. Stresses that the
European Commission, Members States and stakeholders should take into
account the fact that technological development generates other forms
of production, making it necessary to develop new economic and trade
models which must guarantee fairer returns for all categories of
rights-holders;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">3</span><span lang="en-GB">2. Stresses that
support for and development of a diversified, attractive,
high-profile, legal range of goods and services available for
consumers as soon as possible may help to tackle the phenomenon of
on-line infringement, and recognises in this respect that the lack of
a functioning internal European digital market constitutes an
important obstacle to the development of legal on-line offers;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">3</span><span lang="en-GB">3. Calls for specific
legislation ensuring that private consumers who have legitimately
received, for their own private use, reproductions of original
products which are covered by protection under intellectual property
rights are not required to demonstrate the legitimacy of those
reproductions, but that it should be up to interested parties to
prove any violation of rules under the protection of intellectual
property rights;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">3</span><span lang="en-GB">4. Calls the Commission
to open a reflection on how to adapt intellectual property to the new
technologic developments and to invite all those active in the
sector, including in particular telecom operators and Internet
service providers, to join forces and seek solutions that are
equitable for large and small stakeholders as much as for consumers,
that guarantee fair, effective remuneration to all categories of
rights holders, real choice for consumers, cultural diversity and
respect for fundamental rights, including the right to data
protection and privacy and the right to access to the internet;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">3</span><span lang="en-GB">5. Calls on the
Commission to make proposals to Member states and the European
Parliament envisaging alternative reward systems aimed at compensate
the authors for the on-line use of their works;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">3</span><span lang="en-GB">6. Calls on the
Commission to think broadly about methods of facilitating industry
access to the digital market without geographical borders, taking
account of the particular features of each sector, by addressing
urgently the issue of multi-territory licences, for which there is
substantial demand from consumers, and the lack of harmonised
legislation with regard to copyright as well as an effective and
transparent system for rights management, which would complement this
existing growth in services which are legal;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">37</span><span lang="en-GB">. Stresses that the
system for granting licences should be improved on the basis of
technical neutrality, </span><span lang="en-GB">in such a way that
the Member States have available to them a flexible, effective and
transparent system which can be adapted to new technologies;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">38</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to review the issue of cross-border management of rights
and change the current situation of legal uncertainty created by
Commission Recommendation 2005/737/EC of 18 October 2005 on
collective cross-border management of copyrights, taking into account
the fact that copyright is inherently territorial for cultural,
traditional and linguistic reasons and ensuring a pan-European
licensing system providing consumers with access to the widest
possible choice of content and not at the expense of European local
repertoire;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">39</span><span lang="en-GB">. Invites the
Commission to adopt an open-ended approach to the proposals that have
emerged regarding the recognition of online non commercial file
sharing by producing comprehensive data regarding the economic
aspects of mutualised funding schemes for creation based on
non-market exchanges of digital content (such as the ‘creative
contribution’ or ‘Kulturflatrate’);</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">40</span><span lang="en-GB">. Considers it
essential to have adequate funding for cultural and creative
industries as well as for creative communities, and calls on the
Council, the Commission and the Member States to take the action
required, recommending mixed methods of funding and financial
security, and promoting a regulatory and fiscal framework that
favours cultural industries as well as creative communities, and more
particularly the application of tax credits and reduced rates of VAT
to all cultural products, including online works;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">4</span><span lang="en-GB">1. Asks the European
Commission to promote availability of EU-wide licences for
intellectual property rights (IPR), which have first been subject to
a detailed impact assessment, taking into account the differences
between content industries;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">42</span><span lang="en-GB"> Draws attention,
furthermore, to the growing problem of Internet-based industrial
espionage and theft of data constituting industrial property, in
particular technical documentation and source code; </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-indent: -0.75cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">43</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to identify the particular problems and needs of SMEs, to
develop specific measures to assist SMEs in disputes related to
intellectual property rights and to enable SMEs to better protect
themselves both in the EU and in third countries;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Strengthening
relations to </b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>consumer </b></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">44</span><span lang="en-GB">. Takes note of the
limited success of the awareness campaigns for respecting online IPR;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">45</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to work together with the industry to develop more diverse
payment facilities that can be used for on-line and cross-border
purchases by consumers who do not have access to a credit card, in
order to make it easier for European consumers to buy legally-offered
content, and thereby promote the achievement of the digital internal
market;</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><br><br>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm"><b>The
international dimension and impact on the internal market</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">4</span><span lang="en-GB">6. Supports steps taken
by the Commission with a view to identifying the best ways to further
improve the EU Customs Regulation and calls on the Commission and
Member States to ensure </span><span lang="en-GB">that the detention
of goods whose illegality is not proven should be as short as
possible to avoid illegitimately blocking international transfers of
such goods;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">4</span><span lang="en-GB">7. Calls on the
Commission to pursue innovative and upgraded cooperation between
administrative departments and the various sectors of industry
concerned, without prejudice to the traditional and legal distinction
between the roles and competences of the law enforcement and judicial
authorities and of the industry;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">4</span><span lang="en-GB">8. Considers that any
measure restricting free access to the Internet should only be issued
by a judicial body; </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">49</span><span lang="en-GB">. Calls on the
Commission to resume its cooperation with priority third countries
with regard to intellectual property and </span><span lang="en-GB">promote
a balanced approach</span><span lang="en-GB"> in the context of the
negotiations on intellectual property under the auspices of the World
Trade Organisation concerning intellectual property, particularly in
the framework of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS</span><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal">);</span></span></font></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">50</span><span lang="en-GB">. </span><span lang="en-GB">Calls
on the Commission to ensure </span><span lang="en-GB">that</span><span lang="en-GB">
its efforts in the negotiations on the multilateral
</span><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><a class="western" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none">Anti-Counterfeiting
Trade Agreement (ACTA)</span></font></a></span></font><span lang="en-GB">
are limited to the existing European IPR enforcement system against
counterfeiting, in accordance with its resolution of 10 March 2010;
reiterates its calls on the Commission to keep the Parliament
immediately and fully informed at all stages of the negotiations, and
to ensure that the provisions of ACTA fully comply with the acquis
communautaire on IPR and fundamental rights;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">5</span><span lang="en-GB">1. Reiterates its calls
on the Commission to ensure that ACTA only concentrates on IPR
enforcement measures and not on substantive IPR issues such as the
scope of protection, limitations and exceptions, secondary liability
or liability of intermediaries, and that ACTA is not used as a
vehicle for modifying the existing European IPR enforcement
framework;</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal">5</span></span></font><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal">2.
Calls on the Commission to refuse any provision that could allow
trademark and copyright holders to intrude on the privacy of alleged
infringers without due legal process, further criminalise
non-commercial copyright and trademark infringements or reinforce
Digital Rights Management technologies at the cost of the rights of
the public;</span></span></font></p>
<p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.21cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2">
<font size="2"><font size="3"><b>Organised crime</b></font></font></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">5</span><span lang="en-GB">3 Stresses the
importance of fighting organised crime in the area of counterfeiting
of goods; points out in this context the need for appropriate EU
legislation on proportional and fair sanctions and supports close
strategic and operational cooperation between all the interested
parties within the EU, in particular Europol, national authorities
and the private sector, as well as with non-EU states and
international organisations;</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.63cm; text-indent: -0.63cm; margin-top: 0.21cm">
<span lang="en-GB">5</span><span lang="en-GB">4. Instructs its
President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission,
the European Economic and Social Committee and the parliaments and
governments of the Member States.</span></p>
<div id="sdfootnote1">
<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc">1</a><span lang="pl-PL">
OJ L 178, 17.7.2000, p.1.</span></p>
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<div id="sdfootnote2">
<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote2sym" href="#sdfootnote2anc">2</a><span lang="pl-PL">
OJ L 167, 22.6.2001, p. 10.</span></p>
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<div id="sdfootnote3">
<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote3sym" href="#sdfootnote3anc">3</a><span lang="pl-PL">
OJ L 196, 2.8.2003, p.7.</span></p>
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<div id="sdfootnote4">
<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote4sym" href="#sdfootnote4anc">4</a><span lang="fr-FR">
OJ L 195, 2.6.2004, p. 16.</span></p>
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<div id="sdfootnote5">
<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote5sym" href="#sdfootnote5anc">5</a><span lang="fr-FR">
OJ C 74E, 20.3.2008, p. 526.</span></p>
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