Traduction de «Responsabilité de droit commun du fabricant » (Français → Anglais) :

general legal liability of the manufacturer

general legal liability

These issues include legal personality, the invalidity of a contract arising from lack of capacity, illegality or immorality unless the reasons for such illegality or immorality are addressed in the Common European Sales Law , the determination of the language of the contract, matters of non-discrimination, representation, plurality of debtors and creditors, change of parties including assignment, set-off and merger, property law including the transfer of ownership, intellectual property law, the law of torts and the issue of whether concurrent contractual and non-contractual liability claims can be pursued together.

We must look again at the unacceptable issues in relation to responsibility – because, if the rules of ordinary law concerning responsibility were applied, we would not have these problems. We must also look again at the application of rules of ordinary law concerning the right of European citizens to information, which, under present conditions, the system that has been introduced clearly does not safeguard.

9. Stresses that the transfer of clean-energy technology to developing countries is central to tackling climate change and meeting the Millennium Development Goals; notes that at the 2005 Gleneagles summit, G8 leaders recognised the need for greater international co-operation and coordination of research and development of energy technologies; notes further that, at the same time, the Heads of Government of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, China and India issued a joint statement with a view to building a new paradigm for international cooperation in the future, including improved participation in RD, international funding for technology transfer, and a concerted effort to address issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); calls ...[+++]on the Commission to address IPR-related barriers to the acquisition of existing proprietary clean-energy technology through dialogue on the basis of further work analysing how international funds and public-private initiatives have fostered technology transfer covered by IPRs in other fields; calls on the Commission to explore the potential for new kinds of global public-private-partnerships in technologies to tackle climate change, drawing experience from international agreements to support IPR access to anti-retroviral drugs for developing countries.

The granting of authorization shall not diminish the general legal liability of the manufacturer and, where appropriate, of the authorization holder.