Activities of Robert ROCHEFORT related to 2014/2151(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Intellectual property rights: an EU action plan (A8-0169/2015 - Pavel Svoboda) FR
Amendments (5)
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 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 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;