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Five Minutes Agone -- Ec Says Let's Process Pirates Every Bit Criminals


received this press liberate from the Commission. The sum text is reproduced below.
IP/05/906

Brussels, 12 July 2005

Counterfeiting as well as piracy: the Commission proposes European criminal-law provisions to fight infringements of intellectual belongings rights
Today the European Commission adopted proposals for a directive as well as for a framework determination to fight infringements of intellectual belongings rights. The operate of the proposed measures is to align national criminal police as well as amend European cooperation as well as therefore every bit to bargain effectively with counterfeiting as well as piracy activities, which are oft carried out past times criminal organisations. Counterfeiting as well as piracy, as well as infringements of intellectual belongings inwards general, accept increased significantly inwards recent years as well as seriously undermine several sectors of the European economy.

Franco Frattini, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Freedom as well as Security, remarked that the novel measures proposed past times the Commission flat the criminal police front end to the instruct by against counterfeiting as well as piracy inwards Europe. Effective alignment of national criminal police inwards this domain, he declared, “forms a basic platform underpinning our articulation efforts to eradicate these phenomena which are undermining the economy”. Criminal organisations are forthwith investing inwards these activities which are oft to a greater extent than lucrative than other types of trafficking as well as even as well as therefore demeanour low-cal penalties. Counterfeiters as well as pirates jeopardise legitimate businesses as well as threaten innovation. Furthermore, inwards many cases, counterfeit goods pose a existent danger to world wellness as well as safety.

The proposed measures utilize to all types of infringements of intellectual belongings rights. Under the proposal for a directive, all intentional infringements of an intellectual belongings correct on a commercial scale, as well as attempting, aiding or abetting as well as inciting such infringements are treated every bit criminal offences.

The proposal for a framework determination sets a threshold for criminal penalties applicable to the perpetrators of these offences: at to the lowest degree iv years' imprisonment if the offence involves a criminal arrangement or if it jeopardises world wellness as well as safety. The applicable fine must endure at to the lowest degree EUR 100,000 to EUR 300,000 for cases involving criminal organisations or posing a guide chances to world wellness as well as safety. The proposal allows Member US to utilize tougher penalties.

The Commission hopes that this clear political betoken reflecting the determination to fight piracy as well as counterfeiting volition endure supported past times concerted, long-term data campaigns past times national as well as regional regime as well as other interested parties to enhance awareness, non exclusively amidst primal players inwards the instruct by against counterfeiting as well as piracy simply too alongside the wider world every bit a whole.

Franco Frattini ponders the fate of approximately other pirate ...

Looks similar the Commission plans to instruct tough -- simply are these fines tough plenty when you lot see the rewards enjoyed past times successful pirates as well as the ease with which they earn them?
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