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Activities of Oriol JUNQUERAS I VIES related to 2009/2178(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market
2016/11/22
Committee: ITRE
Dossiers: 2009/2178(INI)
Documents: PDF(111 KB) DOC(84 KB)

Amendments (10)

Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recommends a study on the impact of patents on SMEs, bearing in mind not only the cost of patents but also their quality, as poor quality patents lead to high patent litigation costs which are especially detrimental to SMEs;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Regrets that this communication confuses two very different issues – commercial counterfeiting and non- commercial unauthorized digital copying (‘piracy’); acknowledges that counterfeiting is a serious problem, particularly with regard to health-related products; is furthermore concerned that treating both issues in the same way threatens to undermine the fight against counterfeiting;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Promote interoperability and technological neutrality, allowing content covered by IPR to be distributed regardless of technology or format used, and allowing convertibility of content between formats;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Consider effective sanctions to deter infringement of copyright and prevent the losses caused to rights holders as a resulta balanced approach that takes into account rights holders on the one hand, and freedom of expression and the fundamental rights of net users on the other, while upholding the principle that, for example, communications providers are mere conduits and as such not liable for infringement occurring through or facilitated by their services;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Is concerned that voluntary agreements could be used to implement measures which risk undermining fundamental rights and circumvent democratic processes;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Make full use of sanctions available to it under competition and trade law where relevant and note that sanctions, as one of the possible tools in the field of copyright, should be targeted at commercial exploiters rather than individual citizens, as a point of principle;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Include, wWhere relevant, include in all impact assessments an evaluation of the impact relating to IPR and to flows of knowledge, in particular with respect to small and medium-sized enterprises, in all impact assessments;
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Contribute, through the European Counterfeiting and Piracy Observatory, to the development of common standard procedures and criteria to enable the production of reliable and comparable data on the occurrence and value of counterfeiting and piracy across sectors. ; ensure that the Observatory is not used as an instrument for the development of soft law outside the scope of normal democratic decision-making processes.
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Acknowledge that whereas efforts to tackle on-line non-commercial file- sharing have created a strong and damaging antagonism between the creative industries and their public, it is therefore necessary to explore new ways of creating synergy between the rights of the public and the revenues of authors and creators.
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Refuse any provision that could allow rights holders to intrude on the privacy of alleged infringers without due legal process.
2010/02/26
Committee: ITRE