12 Amendments of Marietje SCHAAKE related to 2011/0135(COD)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The economic and cultural well-being of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Union’) relies on sustained creativity and innovation. Therefore measures for their effective protection and the ability to develop or introduce new tools to access creative works are indispensible in ensuring its future prosperity.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Intellectual property rights are vital business assets that help to ensure that innovators and creators get a fair return for their work and that their investment in research and new ideas is protected. A balanced level of protection is required to allow innovators and creators to develop and invent new tools which offer access to creative works, thereby increasing the overall market and income for goods and services which are protected by intellectual property rights.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The constant rise of infringements of intellectual property rights constitutes a genuine threat not only to the Union economy, but also to the health and safety of Union consumers. Therefore, effective, immediate and coordinated actions at European and global levels are needed to successfully combat this phenomenonEffective, immediate and coordinated actions at European and global levels are needed to successfully halt trade in counterfeited products, especially where they constitute a threat to the health and safety of Union consumers.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Communication set out that the Observatory should become the central resource for gathering, monitoring and reporting information and data related to all intellectual property rights infringements. It should be used as a platform for cooperation between representatives from national authorities and stakeholders to exchange ideas and expertise on best practices, to develop joint enforcement strategies and to make, to evaluate the costs of enforcement measures, to analyse best practices with regard to legal offers online and their effect on levels of piracy, and to develop evidence based policy recommendations to policy-makers. The Communication specified that the Observatory would be hosted and managed by the services of the Commission.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In its Resolution on the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market of 1 March 2010, the Council invited the Commission, the Member States and industry to provide the Observatory with available reliable and comparable data on counterfeiting and piracy and to jointly develop and agree, in the context of the Observatory, on plans to collect further information. The Council also invited the Observatory to publish each year a comprehensive annual report covering the scope, scale and principal characteristics of counterfeiting and piracy as well as its impact on the internal market. That annual report should be prepared primarily with the information derived from extensive, independent, multidisciplinary and reliable research commissioned and published transparently by the Observatory and secondarily with the information provided by the authorities of the Member States, the Commission and, the private sector and stakeholders from civil society, within the limits of data protection law, on the scope, scale and principal characteristics of counterfeiting and piracy as well as its impact on the internal market.
Amendment 52 #
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 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. Moreover, the Observatory should analyse the possibilities for effective competition with unauthorised content online and the effect of competition on levels of unauthorised content.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) improving the understanding on the value and purpose of intellectual property;
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) enhancing the knowledge on technical tools to prevent and combat counterfeiting and piracy, including trackhe effects of counterfeiting and tpiracing systemy on fundamental rights;
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) monitoring and reporting on the effect of legal online offers on use of unauthorised content;
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
(hb) assessing barriers to the completion of an effective digital single market and recommending effective policy options to overcome such barriers.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) establishing a transparent methodology for the collection, analysis and reporting of independent, objective, comparable and reliable data related to infringements of intellectual property rights;
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point c a (new)
Article 5 – point c a (new)
(ca) operate transparently by publishing and making easily accessible all relevant information, such as the results of research, statistics and case-law discussed, and by publishing detailed minutes of meetings.