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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7949

21 April 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/internal market
Parliament hearing confirms deep differences over protection of brand names for parallel imports

Brussels, 20/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament organised on 10 April a hearing on the "international exhaustion of trade mark rights", or, in other words, the right of manufacturers to impose a price on products of their brand imported from third countries and resold in Europe. This hearing, organised for preparing the own initiative report by German Christian Democrat Hans-Peter Mayer, confirmed the divergence that exists consumers, distributors and manufacturers over the...

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