Traduction de «Bureau d'assistance européen pour les DPI » (Français → Anglais) :

The Italian and Greek authorities will be assisted in identifying such persons with the help of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and other relevant Agencies.

Stresses the lack of resources at SMEs’ disposal to fight breaches of IPR affecting them on third markets; calls for concrete initiatives on the part of the EU to improve the protection of SMEs’ intellectual property rights in these third countries, such as has been achieved with the SME IPR helpdesk in China; observes that this model of helpdesk is currently being extended, in a pilot initiative, to a selection of ASEAN and South America countries; stresses the need to conduct a proper evaluation of existing helpdesks, with a view to optimising the functioning of the model before extending it further; urges the Commission, once less ...[+++]ons have been drawn from this assessment, to adopt similar helpdesks in priority markets where IPR is an important issue; urges the Commission and the Member States to step up customs cooperation in the EU and with third countries on the seizure of counterfeit goods, and to simplify customs procedures;

For example, in China, an IPR Helpdesk has been launched to provide business-oriented advice on IPRs including enforcement.

- assess the IPR Helpdesk in China with a view to providing optimised IPR support services for SMEs in third countries and to assessing the potential for continued and expanded support.

At this stage, the Commission remains unconvinced about the idea of establishing a full-time President of the European Council, assisted by a 'Bureau', and in charge of high-level external representation as well as of the organisation and preparation of the European Council's work.

The Community's actions to improve consumer representation has taken three principal forms: - action has been taken, usually in the form of providing financial assistance, to stimulate the development of consumer associations in certain Member-States in which such organisations were still struggling to get established; - financial assistance has been provided to four organisations at the Community level which group national or regional consumer associations, and which lobby for improvements in EC consumer policy: these four organisations are ...[+++]: . BEUC: Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs; . COFACE : Confédération des organisations familiales de la Communauté européenne; . ETUC: the European Trades Union Confederation; .