9 Amendments of Dita CHARANZOVÁ related to 2014/2151(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that IPRs are not just copyrights, but trademarks and patents, among others, and each of these is vital to the values of Europe's goods and services;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for Commission's actions on IPR enforcement to be adapted to the growth of the Digital Single Market and to address both digital and physical IPR infringement equally; notes that increasingly counterfeit and IPR infringing physical goods are traded and sold via online marketplaces, where Member States authorities have limited abilities to control sales; stresses the need to enrol marketplace platform owners in all efforts to enforce IPRs, including efforts towards the removal of counterfeit goods and the banning of sellers from their sites;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the potential threat and damage to consumer health and safety the purchase of IPR infringing goods may result in; thus compliments the Commission on its engagement with consumers, in particular those of the younger generation, via public information campaigns and other relevant means, and encourages it to continue; welcomes, in particular, the efforts of the Observatory located within the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) that are aimed at raising awareness among consumers of the benefits of choosing IPR respecting products and facilitating access to such products;stresses in this context that product quality and safety is a different issue from product authenticity, thus the IPR status and their possible infringement should be addressed separately; (The second part of this para is moved into a new para to separate the issue of IPR infringement from the issue of product safety)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks Member States’ authorities to ensure that IPR infringing goods, that are a safety risk, are included into RAPEX notifications, regardless if the goods is sold legally or illegally in their Member State;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’'s proposed Green Paper on consulting stakeholders on the impact of chargeback and related schemes to tackle commercial scale IP infringements and to assess the need to take more concrete actions in this field; believes that introduction of a EU-wide right to ‘chargeback’ on all unwilling bought counterfeit goods would be a positive benefit for consumers and encourage traders to verify goods before putting them on sale;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises that the duty of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) to obtain data documenting IPR infringements from the industry and to generate reliable data and analysis of the real impacts of infringements for economic actors should be part of the ten- point action plan and be the base to further actions in the different sectors most concerned;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses that in order to achieve a meaningful enforcement of IPR, full information should be available and accessible regarding the type of IP rights (for example patent, trademark, copyright) concerned in each situation, the status of the validity of these rights and the identity of the owners;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes any potential actions on due diligence throughout the supply chain which leads to fewer IP infringing goods; stresses that such actions must be targeted in nature, without creating additional administrative burdens on the average trader, and flexible as IP infringers move from one product to another to avoid controls;