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"The report concerns entrusting the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market with new powers relating to the protection of intellectual property rights. It is not a new body that is being set up, therefore, but an existing one that is being strengthened to tackle the challenges posed by the growing problem of the trade in counterfeit and pirated goods. Every year this problem causes our businesses to become less competitive, puts the health and safety of millions of European consumers at risk, cheats the Member States’ coffers of slices of their revenue, and erodes parts of the European labour market. Moreover, this thriving activity, which is increasingly difficult to control, subsidises organised crime. I therefore welcome the attempt to fight this growing problem by every means possible, not least by setting up a coordinating forum for the competent national authorities to exchange good practices as well as information and joint strategies to tackle the issue through cooperation, but without threatening the individual national authorities’ powers. I therefore voted for the report."@en1
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