5 Amendments of Kostas CHRYSOGONOS related to 2014/2151(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas intellectual property rights are one of the driving forces of innovation and creativity and a key contributor to competitiveness and employment; whereas the enforcement of intellectual property rights plays a significant role in ensuring consumers’ health and safety; whereas counterfeiting is generally linked with a black economy;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the communication of the Commission of 1 July 2014 presenting an action plan on the enforcement of intellectual property rights; supports its approach to IPR enforcement, based on preventive actions and on policy tools which intend to deprive commercial-scale infringers of their revenues and make it more difficult for infringing goods to be put on the market, and calls to define what ‘commercial- scale infringements’ are so as to deprive ‘commercial-scale’ infringers of their revenues;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that applying due diligence, which has a different meaning in the online and the offline environment and thus has to be defined accordingly, throughout the supply chain would improve the business environment and contribute to preventing infringing goods from entering the market; stresses, however, that the cost-benefit ratio of qualitative auditing schemes should be well assessed and that providing support to SMEs should be considered in that respect;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the importance of access to justice and of the cost-effectiveness of judicial proceedings, especially for SMEs, and calls for the development of mediation services and other business-to- business alternative dispute resolution schemjudicial proceedings, to resolve disputes in the area of IPR;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Expresses its satisfaction about the development of the activities ofects the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy to function as a tool for collecting and exchanging data and information on all forms of IPR infringements, and welcomes in particular the efforts made and the results obtained, notably as regards the Enforcement Database and the Anti- Counterfeiting Intelligence Support Tool so far; calls on the Commission to monitor the work of the Observatory making sure that its reports are of a high quality, and use rigorously this evidence to propose solutions for improving legislation; calls on the Commission to report back to Parliament on this on a regular basis;