Brussels, 02/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - Is it legitimate that in buying a brand manufactured in the European Union, a consumer, national of a Member State, pays today more if he carried out his transaction within the Union rather than outside, in the third country? Hans-Peter Mayer, MEP (Christian Democrat, German), rapporteur in the European Parliament on the problem of the expiry of rights conferred by a trade mark is of the negative opinion. Though this is what is presently happening, in...