Traduction de «counterfeit goods » (Anglais → Français) :

For example, Signatories point to a new generation of (small-scale) counterfeit sellers who acquire counterfeits cheaply from online sites or via more traditional distribution channels in modest quantities and subsequently offer them for sale on internet sites. Neither the initial seller of the goods nor the counterfeit goods are necessarily located on EU territory.

Deplores the inadequate protection of IPR in China, and regrets the lack of specific means available to European businesses, and particularly SMEs, to counter IPR infringements effectively; welcomes the Commission’s decision to propose a review of the directive on the enforcement of IPR; calls on the Commission and Member States to defend IPR better in all multilateral organisations where China is a member (the WTO, the World Health Organisation(WHO) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)); wants China to continue to transpose into its national legislation current international law on the protection of IPR and, more specifically, to combat counterfeiting and piracy, and urges the Chinese authorities to ensure enforcement ...[+++], especially at a regional level; regrets that China has not taken part in the negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); urges the Commission and the Member States to step up customs cooperation in the EU and with third countries, particularly with China, on the seizure of counterfeit goods, and to simplify customs procedures; asks the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely with third countries on copyright issues and licensing;

Summary code: Customs / Specific schemes Fraud and corruption / Fight against counterfeiting / Counterfeiting and piracy Internal market / Single Market for Goods / Single market for goods: external dimension / Specific arrangements Internal market / Businesses in the internal market / Intellectual property / Counterfeit goods and piracy

Whereas the provisions of this Regulation are designed to discourage international trade in counterfeit goods; whereas the specific provisions of the Treaty do not confer on the Community institutions the power to adopt all the measures which are necessary to achieve this objective, and in particular measures to which goods found to be counterfeit must be subjected; whereas it is therefore necessary to base the provisions of this Regulation also on Article 235,

1. In each Member State, a trade mark owner may lodge an application in writing with the competent authority for suspension by the customs authorities of the release of counterfeit goods entered for free circulation in that Member State, where he has valid grounds for suspecting that the importation of such counterfeit goods is contemplated in that Member State.

This Regulation aims to halt the relentless growth in international trade in counterfeit goods by improving upon and replacing the system established by Regulation (EEC) No 3842/86 laying down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation of counterfeit goods.