Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-02-Speech-1-107-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-07-02"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120702.19.1-107-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-07-02-Speech-1-108-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Christian Engström2
lpv:spokenAs	member; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; JURI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Piratpartiet (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we all agree that counterfeit goods are a bad thing and something that we do not want in the European Union, but I would remind all colleagues that we already have lots of legislation on that and that we already have the Customs Regulation. The new thing in this report is that it extends the responsibility of customs from – as the situation is now – stopping counterfeit goods (that is, goods with a falsified trademark) to handling all sorts of intellectual property including, for instance, patents. That is not something that the customs office is equipped to do. Patent conflicts are incredibly complex; we even have a special court structure to sort out whether a patent is infringing or not. It is not something a customs official can do just like that. This, of course, leads to problems, in particular, for generic medicines. The organisations that are working on access to medicines are very concerned with this report, and they say that, if it goes through in the way it is drafted now, it will be bad for access to medicines. But I would also raise another issue: the focus on small consignments. I think that has a great chance of really harming confidence in e-trade, which is something we want more of. An ordinary customer who orders a smartphone and has it confiscated and destroyed by the customs office because there is a patent conflict between Samsung and Apple will never understand why that happened and will completely lose confidence in e-trade. I think this report needs to be seriously redrafted if we are to accept it."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Christian Engström,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group."1
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