22/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 22 December, the European Commission published a communication detailing plans to introduce regular, automatic checks on EU brandname payments levied by the EU's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), which controls the issuing of brandnames in the EU, fees for the use of brandnames and the right to use designs and models. A draft regulation will be published in the next few months. In the short term, OHIM fees will fall (as in 2005,...