11 Amendments of Malika BENARAB-ATTOU related to 2011/0135(COD)
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The economic well-being and the social, economic, and cultural development of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as “the Union”) relies on sustainedy on the preservation and promotion of its heritage, its creativity, and innovation. Therefore measures for their effective protection are indispensible in ensuring its future prosperityts capacity for innovation; access to, and the transfer of, technology, knowledge, and culture contribute to development, and their role should accordingly be taken into account by taking measures to meet the new social needs of the information society, one model for which should be the Unesco Convention of 20 October 2005 on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Intellectual property rights are vital business assets that help toshould ensure that innovators and creators get a fair returnward for their work and that their investment in research and new ideas is protectedand should serve to disseminate technologies and knowledge by enabling everyone to gain access to culture.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The evolving digital economy has given rise to an increase in online intellectual property infringements involving counterfeiting, unauthorised copying and piracy which has had significant impact on the European economy and the cultural and creative sectors. It is therefore necessary to set up a European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy and to ensure that it has the necessary infrastructure and funding to perform its tasks effectively and to help combat infringements of intellectual property rights.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) A sound, harmonised and progressive approach to intellectual property rights is fundamental in the endeavour to fulfil the ambitacilitate the dissemination and transfer of technologies, knowledge, and culture while specifically taking into account the cultural and social needs of the Union’s of the Europe 2020 Strategpopulation and the peoples of third countries in all their diversity.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The constant rise of iInfringements of intellectual property rights can constitutes a genuine threat not onlythreat to the Union economy, but also and to the health and safety of Union consumers. Therefore, effective, immediatand third country consumers alike. Effective and coordinated actions at European and global levels are needed to successfully combat this phenomenon, taking into account the general interest and without jeopardising the diversity of cultural expressions.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Office should offer a forum that brings together public authorities and the private sector, ensuring the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant objective, comparable and reliable data regarding the value of intellectual property rights and the infringements of those rights, the development of best practices and strategies to protect intellectual property rights, and raising public awareness of the impacts of intellectual property rights infringements. Furthermore, the Office should fulfil additional tasks, such as to improve the understanding of the value of intellectual property rightsevaluate the impact of intellectual property rights infringements on creativity and innovation within the Union, enhance the expertise of persons involved in the enforcementvaluation of intellectual property rights infringements by appropriate training measures, increase knowledge on techniques to prevent counterfeitingpiracy, and improve cooperation with third countries and international organisations.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Office should offer a forum that brings together public authorities and the private sectorin cooperation with stakeholders as a whole, including representatives of civil society, ensuring the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant objective, comparable and reliable data regarding the value of intellectual property rights and the infringements of those rights, the development of best practices and strategies to protect intellectual property rights, and raising public awareness of the impacts of intellectual property rights infringements and the implications entailed in the enforcement of measures relating to such infringements within the economy and in the research and health sectors, not least in developing countries. Furthermore, the Office should fulfil additional tasks, such as to improve the understanding of the value of intellectual property rights, enhance the expertise of persons involved in the enforcement of intellectual property rights by appropriate training measures, increase knowledge on techniques to prevent counterfeiting, and improve cooperation with third countries and international organisations.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) With regard to representatives of the private sector, the Office should involve, when assembling the Observatory in the context of its activities, a representative selection of the economic, sectors most concerned by and mostocial, and cultural sectors, exsperienced in the fight againstcially those which might be most concerned by infringements of intellectual property rights, and in particular representatives of right holders and Internet service providers. Also, a proper representation of consumers and of small and medium sized enterprises should be ensured. small and medium- sized enterprises should be ensured. With regard to representatives of civil society and in accordance with Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union, the Office should, when assembling the Observatory, make the necessary arrangements for the representation of consumer and user protection bodies, organisations and associations working in the field of data protection, the social partners, and cultural operators, including those in the voluntary sector.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) improving the understanding on the scope and impact of, and the enforcement of measures to combat, infringements of intellectual property rights, protected under European Union law or the national laws of the Member States, including industrial property rights, copyright and rights related to copyright;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) improving the understanding on the value of intellectual property and knowledge about the impact of infringements of intellectual property rights on creativity and innovation within the Union;
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2