Brussels, 25/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 24 January 2013, the European Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee approved, by 33 votes to 3, an agreement with the EU Council of Ministers on a new regulation to give EU customs officers more effective powers from 1 January 2014 to confiscate, store and destroy counterfeit goods imported into the EU for commercial ends (non-commercial counterfeit goods found in travellers' luggage are excluded). The regulation...