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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10697
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) internal market

Shift to new rules on confiscating counterfeits

Brussels, 26/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - With a majority of 25 votes (3 votes against), the internal market and consumer protection committee at the European Parliament gave a mandate to rapporteur Jürgen Creutzmann (ALDE, Germany) to open negotiations with the Council for a second reading agreement on the regulation introducing new customs rules on how customs officials confiscate and store imports of counterfeit or pirated goods that infringe intellectual property rights. Last July (see...

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